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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: gcc 2.95 vs 3.21 performance
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:24:44 +0000 (GMT)
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> >There is also tcc (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/)
> >It claims to support gcc-like inline assembler, appears to be much 
> >smaller and faster than gcc. Plus it is GPL so the liscense isn't a 
> >problem either.
> >Though, I am not really sure of the quality of code generated or of how 
> >mature it is.
> 
> tcc is interesting.  The code generation is pretty simplistic (read:
> trivially horrible for most things), but it sure is fast and small.  And
> judging by the changelog, Fabrice is trying to compile the kernel with
> it. 
> 
> For a lot of problems, small-and-fast is good.

Maybe otcc is a better choice, then?

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/otcc/

:-)

John.
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