From: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
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Subject: Re: An interesting idea on how to make DJGPP have the fastest optimized code :)
Date: 22 Sep 1997 04:19:40 GMT
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Colin Walsh <cwalsh AT nf DOT sympatico DOT ca> wrote:
> Ive been watching the "which compiler is better" thread for a while now and
> have seen many articles mentioning optimization being a critical part
> of the compilers performance. Now, what if, someone here came up with a
> kind of "AI" (used loosely) optimizer for DJGPP? It could run after the
> normal optimizer and go through the code with the knowledge of an AT&T asm
> programmer and find things that the normal optimizer missed.

DJGPP does not and will -never- add things not already present in the stock
gcc.

> Now, Im not that good with assembly myself, nor artificial intelligence, but
> if some of us took enough interest in it we could have DJGPP/gcc making
> some of the best code out there and we can <french guy from Monty Python and
> the Holy Grail> fart in thier (the MSVC supporters) general direction! 
> </french guy> :)

How about we fart in their general direction anyway? If you think MSVC is
great, by all means, switch. Personally, I'll stick with gcc.

late\fw

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