From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gcc 2.95 vs 3.21 performance
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:22:17 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0302051120310.8517-100000@dragon.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1rni4$3dr$1@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
| In article <3E4045D1.4010704@rogers.com>,
| Jeff Muizelaar <muizelaar@rogers.com> wrote:
| >
| >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. Hell, some of the things
| I'd personally find interesting don't have any code generation part at
| all (static analysis of annotated source-code - stanford checker on the
| cheap).
Yep, that's exactly why I'm interested...
| And development doesn't always need good code generation (right
| now some people use "gcc -O0" for that, because anything else hurts too
| much. Now, the code from tcc will probably look more like "-O-1", but
| at least you can test out things _quickly_).
--
~Randy
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2003-02-04 22:05 ` gcc 2.95 vs 3.21 performance Andi Kleen
2003-02-04 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-05 10:04 ` Pavel Janík
2003-02-05 20:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-06 15:00 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-04 22:59 ` Jeff Muizelaar
2003-02-04 23:12 ` b_adlakha
2003-02-05 8:41 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-05 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-05 19:22 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2003-02-05 19:24 ` John Bradford
2003-02-06 7:02 ` Neil Booth
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2003-02-07 10:31 ` b_adlakha
2003-02-07 18:46 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-07 21:49 ` Neil Booth
2003-02-10 2:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-10 9:19 ` Tomas Szepe
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2003-02-05 20:28 ` b_adlakha
[not found] <120432836@toto.iv>
2003-02-05 2:45 ` Peter Chubb
2003-02-03 23:05 Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-03 23:31 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-02-04 0:43 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-02-04 13:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-02-04 14:20 ` John Bradford
2003-02-04 6:54 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-02-04 7:13 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-04 12:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-02-04 15:51 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-04 9:54 ` Bryan Andersen
2003-02-04 15:46 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-04 19:09 ` Timothy D. Witham
2003-02-04 19:35 ` John Bradford
2003-02-04 19:44 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-04 20:11 ` John Bradford
2003-02-04 20:20 ` John Bradford
2003-02-04 20:45 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-02-04 21:44 ` Timothy D. Witham
2003-02-05 7:15 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-02-05 10:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-02-05 11:41 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-02-05 12:20 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-05 15:30 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-04 21:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-04 21:54 ` John Bradford
2003-02-04 22:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-04 23:27 ` Timothy D. Witham
2003-02-04 23:21 ` Larry McVoy
2003-02-04 23:42 ` b_adlakha
2003-02-05 0:19 ` Andy Pfiffer
2003-02-04 23:51 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-05 1:03 ` Hugo Mills
2003-02-10 22:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 23:28 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-02-04 23:51 ` Eli Carter
2003-02-05 0:27 ` Larry McVoy
2003-02-06 20:42 ` Paul Jakma
2003-02-05 3:03 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-02-05 6:03 ` Mark Mielke
2003-02-07 16:09 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-04 10:57 ` Padraig
2003-02-04 13:11 ` Helge Hafting
2003-02-04 13:29 ` Jörn Engel
2003-02-04 14:05 ` P
2003-02-04 20:36 ` Herman Oosthuysen
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