[coyotos-dev] Accept GCJ into the tool chain?

[Haplo]

On Nov 27, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 14:45 -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
>> Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>>> In short, gcc/g++ win against Haskell on both memory consumption and
>>> performance.
>>
>> I would rather have slightly slower code that works than no code  
>> at all
>> or incorrect code.
>
> I tend to agree, but "slightly slower" should certainly mean "within a
> factor of two". Even on these fairly contrived benchmarks, we aren't
> seeing a factor of two in far too many of the cases.
>
> It will be very interesting to see how BitC does when it stabilizes.
>
> shap
>

Indeed it shall. A lot of it may depend on compiler optimization  
though, but even that depends heavily on the language (for example  
one which uses heavy assembly or direct-to-assembly syntax would be  
far less affected by a compiler).

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