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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:13:42 +0200
From: Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@tremplin-utc.net>
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To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace
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03/28/2006 05:57 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote/a écrit:
> 
> But my question still stands.  Does anybody actually use any non-GCC 
> compiler for userspace in Linux?
At least in the domain of HPC, I've seen people which were compiling 
mostly *everything* with the intel compiler (x86 and ia64) for 
performance reason. So... yes userspace is sometimes compiled with 
non-GCC compiler :-)

Eric
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