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: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab) Subject: Re: egcs (Re: what DOES the GPL really say?) Date: 1997/08/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 267811177 Sender: schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de References: <5ph4g5$sbs$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Dortmund University, Germany Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marinos J Yannikos writes: |> 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. A good GNU C compiler will also help a future GNU Java compiler, because the back end will be shared. -- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different"