Re: gcc 2.95 vs 3.21 performance

John Bradford
2003-02-05T19:14:17Z

> >There is also tcc (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/)
> >It claims to support gcc-like inline assembler, appears to be much
> >smaller and faster than gcc. Plus it is GPL so the liscense isn't a
> >problem either.
> >Though, I am not really sure of the quality of code generated or of how
> >mature it is.
>
> tcc is interesting. The code generation is pretty simplistic (read:
> trivially horrible for most things), but it sure is fast and small. And
> judging by the changelog, Fabrice is trying to compile the kernel with
> it.
>
> For a lot of problems, small-and-fast is good.

Maybe otcc is a better choice, then?

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/otcc/

:-)

John.