Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 30th May 2003 02:18 UTC
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y Thursday here, a slow evening. Time for a new poll. This poll might require you to think a bit extra: it asks you to vote not for your favorite application, but which OSS application, in your opinion, has achieved high standards, performance, features and ease of use when compared to the best of breed of the closed source world. Read more for more explanation and voting.
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re: Uroboros, gcc
by A.K.H. on Fri 30th May 2003 03:16 UTC

I've learnt that professors are generally professors (at least in university) because they know there stuff. I'd believe them. ;) From what I know, gcc *does* generate terrible code. It's not entirely the gcc developers fault though. Supposedly many optimization techiques are patented.

Anyways, I think gcc certainly has recently improved the most out of the apps listed. Of course, I suppose that's not what the poll asked though. Tough question, this poll. I'm fairly suprised that Mozilla is so favoured.