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There is no reason to expect a product with $100M spent in testing by some of the highest paid mathematics and software engineers in the world to keep up with f

by chisleu 12y ago

There is no reason to expect a product with $100M spent in testing by some of the highest paid mathematics and software engineers in the world to keep up with free software? I say that is wrong. We should expect it to be better, and it is. The intel compiler is faster than GCC on Intel hardware and it always will be. Why? Because GCC can't keep up with the new hardware that comes out. Proprietary compilers have always had the upper hand because incredibly complicated optimizations are incredibly hard to reverse engineer.

jordigh 12y ago
> There is no reason to expect a product with $100M spent in testing by some of the highest paid mathematics and software engineers in the world to keep up with free software? Are you aware that gcc has probably just as much if not more money poured into it? It's not a product of a bunch of hobbyists. Most of the gcc code is done by contributors who are paid to work on gcc. A lot of it is done precisely by companies who are interested in gcc generating the right code for niche hardware.