Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:33:35 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: naisbodo AT enteract DOT com cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Support for higher end cpus In-Reply-To: <92sdjs$3p5$1@bob.news.rcn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 2 Jan 2001 naisbodo AT enteract DOT com wrote: > > Guess what? GCC does seem to produce code that is as good or better > > than proprietary compilers, including MSVC, according to SET's data in > > the above page. > > I'm confused. I did in fact see the above URL, but it puts GCC at > a level comparable to the defunct Watcom compiler and ranks MSVC > as the clear leader. That is not the latest info. I don't remember anymore where are the latest results (I thought they were at the same page as the URL I cited from the FAQ), but I clearly remember SET saying that with the optimizations in GCC 2.95.2 and with the optimal alignment used by Binutils 2.10, GCC no longer lags MSVC.