Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 9th Dec 2002 04:57 UTC
SGI and IRIX The compiler suite coming for all SGI MIPS-based machines is one of the best optimized development tools for any platform. SGI has put many years of experience on the newest version of the series, MIPSpro 7.4, which we recently gave it a spin.
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RE: Interesting
by Eugenia on Mon 9th Dec 2002 06:10 UTC

> If you compile your program at +O2, how can the debugger change that code without recompiling the whole thing?

If you compile at +O2 you don't debug. You release pretty much. In any way, I don't have the SGI machine anymore (SGI got it back last Thursday) so I can't test it for you.

> But Solaris is still a lot better.

Why?