Re: gcc 2.95 vs 3.21 performance

Linus Torvalds
2003-02-04T22:07:25Z

On 4 Feb 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> If you want small and fast use lcc.

lcc isn't really something I want to use, since the license is so strange,
and thus can't be improved upon if there are issues with it.

Some people have used the Intel compiler - which obviously also cannot be
improved upon, but which is likely to start off pretty good. I don't
really want to use it myself - what I'd really like to see is gcc
splitting up just the C compiler as a separate project with more attention
to size and speed.

Linus