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Mostly-Unfair Criticisms of GCC

Mostly-Unfair Criticisms of GCC

Posted Oct 25, 2007 9:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Mostly-Unfair Criticisms of GCC by rmathew
Parent article: A potential competitor for GCC: pcc

I thought that the Apple folks did some cachegrinding and found the problem to be largely
GC-related poor memory locality and a correspondingly awful rate of cache misses?

(IIRC this is being fixed by going back to obstacks in hot spots, but of course new
optimizations are landing at a rate of knots which is slowing everything right back down
again.)


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