From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2006-07-22T00:53:26+09:00 Subject: Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? On 7/21/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote: > > And finally, it is always a good decision to use the compiler from the > > system vendor. Unix guys should remember this. Even if it is a totally > > strange HP PA-RISC compiler. This simply gives the best compatibility. > > wow. that's strange - i've worked on hp-ux, vax, solaris, sunos, and linux > over the last 8 years and have found, without exception, that gcc produces the > fastest code. additionally, the compiler is much (read that __MUCH__) more > standards compiant. just getting variardic c functions working across those > platforms was a chore - unless one uses gcc/glib... I won't use gcc on any platform where it isn't the native compiler. Period. GCC binaries are horridly slow and unstable on HP-UX, despite the disaster that is aCC. GCC binaries are unusable on AIX, despite the mess called xlC. GCC binaries are painfully slow compared to Sun Studio built binaries. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin@zieglers.ca