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From: J Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com>
To: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: keep code simple
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:17:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D42F1DA.5060309@tmsusa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200207271907.g6RJ7ST27551@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua



Denis Vlasenko wrote:

>On 27 July 2002 01:23, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>  
>
>>Remember that "optimized" code often runs slower than
>>simple code.
>>    
>>
>
>A bit offtopic, but: I heard M$ and Intel compilers beat GCC
>by 20-40% in terms of code size. Why GCC is so much behind?
>  
>
er...

one big reason is that gcc is cross platform, while
ms and intel can cut corners and optimize for x86

Just my $.02

Joe



  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-27 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-27  3:23 keep code simple Albert D. Cahalan
2002-07-28  0:05 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-07-27 19:17   ` J Sloan [this message]
2002-07-27 20:24     ` Aldy Hernandez

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