Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Sep 2007 20:14 UTC, submitted by deanna
Anders Magnusson's BSD-licensed pcc compiler has been imported into NetBSD's pkgsrc and OpenBSD's src tree. Anders wrote to NetBSD's tech-toolchain list: "It is not yet bug-free, but it can compile the i386 userspace. The big benefit of it is that it is fast, 5-10 times faster than gcc, while still producing reasonable code. The only optimization added so far is a multiple-register-class graph-coloring register allocator, which may be one of the best register allocators today. Conversion to SSA format is also implemented, but not yet the phi function. Not too difficult though, after that strength reduction is high on the list."
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2006-10-06
"First off, what are these "gpl people" you talk about?"
That would be people like the one i replied to...
"Second, how on Earth does the GPL license not give back code? It was based on freedom of code and free circulation. "
And you see a lot of code going back to the major bsd's from the gpl'ed projects?
"Oh, if it's about the ideological argument that BSD can't touch GPL'd software, save it, I've heard enough of it already. It's been discussed to death all over the place and IMO it has nothing to do with BSD or GPL, it's just several individuals locking horns in very public places."
Cant handle that it's the way it happens? Or is it just that any gpl'ed projekt is like a black hole for code when it comes to the bsd projects that you don't like?