Joe Buck wrote:
I have a full rack of Niagara systems that proves that Sun
cares to some extent. I get early hardware access and
documentation access, plus engineers to talk to and ask
questions of.
With all due respect to your incredible efforts, this amounts to crumbs
from their table.
It doesn't serve us to bash contributors for not doing more. As some have
pointed out, it can backfire; I wouldn't be surprised if Sun's own
compiler group sees gcc as competition and would like for Sun to support
it *less*.
Sure - if it was good. But from what I've seen, SunCC on x86 gets beaten
by GCC, performance-wise. And ICC utterly annihilates GCC in turn, on
x86. :-( I sincerely hope, for Sun's sake, that the situation on SPARC
platform is different, performance-wise. (I don't own any Sun hardware
more recent than SuperSPARC, so wouldn't want to base any conclusions on
what I have.)
Gordan
