[illumos-Discuss] Little question about compilers and a future...

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 22:41 +0900, B M wrote:
> Hi!
> I was just wondering: SunStudio is not opened, right? So what happens
> next, if Snorcle will decide to lock the thing down? Probably so far
> is the ultimate answer: GCC. But if we use GCC, then what the
> performance will be, since SunStudio, AFAIK, significantly faster if
> not twice in some areas. Any other nice-and-fast-and-free compiler
> around?
> 
> Just few cents. :-)
> 

The thought is that maybe clang would work.  We can keep using studio
for now, I don't think they can take it *back*, although they can
prevent anyone else from getting a new copy.  (Which would really
require us to support GCC properly.)

There are also the pathscale compilers, but they may have the same
proprietary issues that Sun Studio has.

	- Garrett