From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: nino@complang.tuwien.ac.look-in-sig (Marinos J. Yannikos) Subject: egcs (Re: what DOES the GPL really say?) Date: 1997/08/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 265641224 References: <5ph4g5$sbs$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: TU Wien E185/1 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Mike Stump wrote: >[...] >This is now false. See the egcs project at Cygnus at: > > http://www.cygnus.com/egcs This is an admirable initiative. However, I wish fewer people would waste their efforts on languages where good compiler support already exists on all platforms. It would be much more interesting to build an optimizing Java->native code compiler. There's just not much of a point in trying to make a C compiler generate 5-10% faster code, if there's an opportunity for a Java compiler to generate perhaps 5-6 times faster code than current JIT compiling virtual machines. I liked C, but I've grown to dislike it after the umpteenth security hole in Linux because of a buffer overflow or careless programming. So, any takers? -nino -- Please change the last part of my address to "at" if you're replying by mail. ``it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice''