Re: gcc 2.95 vs 3.21 performance

J.A. Magallon
2003-02-10T23:19:02Z

On 2003.02.10 Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:51:12AM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:21:01PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > > I'd love to see a small - and fast - C compiler, and I'd be willing to
> > > > make kernel changes to make it work with it.
> > >
> > > I can't offer any immediate help with this but I want the same thing. At
> > > some point, we're planning on funding some extensions into GCC or whatever
> > > reasonable C compiler is around:
> >
> > [snipping Linus from To:]
> >
> > Cool.
> >
> > >
> > > - associative arrays as a builtin type
> > >
> > > {
> > > assoc bar = {}; // anonymous, no file backing
> > >
> > > bar{"some key"} = "some value";
> > > if (defined(bar{"some other value"})) ...
> > > }
> >
> > Allow me:
> >
> > {
> > std::map<std::string,std::string> bar;
> >
> > bar["some key"] = "some value";
> > if (bar.find("some other value") != bar.end()) ...
> > }
>

And don't forget smart pointers with reference counting so you can get rid of
all those stupind kfree's... ;)

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