[OpenIndiana-discuss] open64 as a replacement for Sun Studio?

Mads Worsøe Petersen mads at worsoe.dk
Fri Sep 17 08:32:51 UTC 2010


2010/9/17 Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com>

> On 09/17/10 06:56 PM, Tak Pui Lou wrote:
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>> I have been thinking about the comments on performance impact of moving to
>> gcc. Would open64 be a better choice in terms of performance?
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> There's no good reason to move away from cc.  gcc will always be there as a
> fall back.
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> Ian.
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A good reason could be the license (GPLv3). I prefer a shift to LLVM/CLANG
like FreeBSD.

Mads


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