On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> I agree. I'd prefer to know exactly what's going on in the atomic
> code (rather than having the compiler take care of it for me).
> Similarly, it's pretty rare to use GCC on anything but Linux and the
> *BSDs as each proprietary UNIX vendor has their own compiler optimized
> for their own architectures and operating systems.
Absolutely. GCC seems to be the 'one size fits all' of compilers, meaning
that it generally isn't the best at optimization for a given architecture
or lacks features other, more focused compilers tend to have, like
inter-procedural analysis.
Derek E. Lewis
dlewis at solnetworks.net
http://delewis.blogspot.com