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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 18:49:58 -0400
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From: Geoff Stanbury <geeyoff AT zerohour DOT net>
Subject: Should a non-programmer use pgcc?
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Hi, I'm not on the mailing list.  Sorry if this is frustratingly newbie or 
anything.

I am not a programmer, but I do prefer to compile programs from source 
instead of using precompiled binaries.  (I can vaguely get the gist of c 
code in simple programs when I look at the source.)

PGCC's website implies that using PGCC instead of GCC would do me well--I 
am using an i686 linux system.  I would like to know how to compare 
programs compiled with PGCC to those compiled with GCC, so as to see what 
kind of improvements I get.  I'm also wondering whether PGCC is really 
worth the trouble for me, considering how I don't know much about 
programming, benchmarking, or optimizing code.  Thanks in advance.

--Geoff
geeyoff AT zerohour DOT net