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[Dave Hodgkinson]

Simon Batistoni <simon@penseroso.com> writes:

> > * GCC
> > Have you looked at the ASM it produces? 

Yes thanks.

> > It's a joke. Plus it has huge
> > quantities of bugs. It's an amateurish compiler with an (admittedly)
> > nifty front end/back end decouplement (how many times have you actually
> > used that though) but it would be laughed out of any commercial compiler
> > or compiler research lab.

The all-stops-out 68k optimiser is pretty damn good. And it's been
over 5 years since I looked at the code. Were you looking at max
optmised code? With all the added tweaks? And global
post-optimisation?

Anyhow, it's worth what you paid for it. And it's "good enough" to
bootstrap linux, apache, XFree and the rest.

> It's fashionable to diss Mozilla in that knowing way, as if "it's so
> obviously bad that we don't need to explain why". And I agree that
> it does have problems, mainly in the speed of development, and the
> front end. But you've used galeon - the rendering engine is
> shit-hot, and fast as lightning. And Moz can be clunky, but it
> works, on a daily basis, and the only thing it really chokes on is
> java. IE6, meanwhile, won't stay running for more than 10 minutes on
> any machine I've used it on.

I built mozilla without all the deguggering shit and with max
optimisation and yes, apart from Java, it's been shot hot and is now
my broswer of choice.


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