Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: gcc 2.95 vs 3.21 performance | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 04 Feb 2003 23:05:40 +0100 |
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torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) writes: > > I'd love to see a small - and fast - C compiler, and I'd be willing to > make kernel changes to make it work with it.
If you want small and fast use lcc.
Unfortunately it's not completely free (some weird license), doesn't really support real inline assembly and generates rather bad code compared to gcc.
I'm still looking forward to Open Watcom (http://www.openwatcom.org) - they are near self hosting on Linux. The inline assembly is very VC++ style though; very different from gcc and worse you have to write it in Intel syntax.
Another alternative would be TenDRA, but it also has no inline assembly and it's C understanding can be only described as "fascist".
If you don't care about free software you could also use the Intel compiler, which seems to be often faster in compile time than gcc now and can already compile kernels.
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