[csw-maintainers] Solaris Studio vs GCC

Ben Walton bwalton at opencsw.org
Mon Mar 12 15:47:23 CET 2012


Excerpts from Peter Bonivart's message of Sun Mar 11 19:21:30 -0400 2012:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:

> > I understand that performance of the binaries generated by studio
> > used to be superior, but I don't know if that's still the
> > case.  Aside from this (possible) win for studio, what are some of
> > the other reasons we've traditionally preferred it to gcc?
> 
> I'd like to switch the _default_ compiler only. :)

Yes, this is important.  It was implicit in my mind, but it's good to
be explicit.

Thanks
-Ben
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