All the more reason to run GNU on Linux.

Now if only there were GNUPIC C...

Andy









Wagner Lipnharski <wagner@USTR.NET> on 04/13/2000 12:30:55 PM

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Andrew Warren wrote:
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>     True, Wagner... But compiler manufacturers DO answer the phone
>     when it rings, and sometimes the person on the other end of the
>     line says something like, "Hi, [Walter/Clyde], this is
>     [Andy/Scott/whomever].  Y'know, you can save an instruction in
>     your 16-bit subtractions by...."
>
>     When that happens, the next version of the C compiler generally
>     includes those optimizations.  In other words, specific compiler
>     optimizations are often developed by a whole TEAM of people,
>     most of whom don't even work for the compiler manufacturers.

Most true, and it is very nice to have this kind of "personal" support.
But this only happens because there is a mutual interest. Try to get the
same attention from Microsoft when your Visual Basic doesn't work the
way you want, and you got stuck...

In some sense you will end up with a low cost product that was debugged
(part of) in the field (by the customers), a practical way to do a field
test and gatter data for implementations. For my particular type of
products and customers, I can't afford this kind of business practice.
My customers are not that compreensible, when they buy a screwdriver
they want one with the handler in place and the blade already done.
There are customers and business.  :)

Wagner