Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?)

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 12:52 pm, Roman Divacky wrote:
> > advantage. If it appears at some moment that llvm works well and
> > produces code as fast as gcc, for all the platforms of interest
> > for the FreeBSD people, i have no doubt that they will switch
> > immediately. But one of the aims of
>
> the day is already here... llvm produces roughly the same quality
> of code and it has promises of delivering even much better code in
> near future.
>
> llvm does not have to maintain 20 years old cruft and is based on
> modern development methods.
>
> there are even reports of llvm producing significantly better code
> (for bzip2 iirc etc.)

ATM, one of the biggest problems I see with LLVM+Clang is it is not 
self-hosting as it is almost entirely written in C++.  I think 
buildworld is one of the most important requirements of FreeBSD 
project, IMHO.

Sorry to jump in here, BTW.

Jung-uk Kim