GCC is shit, and that's even truer in the case of fringe ISAs like POWER. IBM maintains its own proprietary compiler, XL, that is MUCH better.
POWER9 Benchmarks
Kayden Richardson
Gavin Jones
Does anyone know of any GPLv3 compatible compilers with potential for being good that's NOT written in C++?
Blake Rogers
It doesn't have to be complete, only have a sane design.
(sage for self-reply)
Samuel Turner
Do you realize that what you're asking for is meaningless.
Thomas Powell
I pointed to it because ARM is shit. You fags are so sensitive to a fucking CPU architecture. You need to grow a pair of balls and get over it. The fact that the AMD and Intel CPUs cost about as much as this machine would suggest it did okay, but some of you can't even handle that and are crying because of a fucking benchmark. Don't attach yourself to hardware and you can see how silly some of you sound.
Andrew Perry
I want a C compiler that:
* is licensed under the GPLv3 or later with the runtime exception, or under a GPLv3 compatible license, such as GPLv2+, MIT, Apache License v2, 3 clause BSD[1] …
* is written in a language that doesn't obscure what's really happening, such as C++, Perl, Rust …
* is much easier to grasp than both GCC and Clang
* produces good code
* transpiles other high-level languages into C
* compiles C to machine code in many stages, to make the architecure of the compiler easier to understand
* has documentation under the same license as the software (or if it uses the GNU FDL, it must not use any of the options)
* is not mainly developed and sustained by a corporation with monetary interests in tivoization and walled gardens (looking at LLVM and Apple)
[1] gnu.org
Ryan White
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Landon Taylor
Your thread was clickbait, attempting to stir shit by taking an article that said "POWER is the fastest RISC, ARM's server efforts are respectable" into "POWER outperformed by cheapo ARM server".
No, they cost MORE than this machine.
A fair comparison would be either similarly priced rigs (for current value), or similarly configured rigs (for future value once economies of scale settle), both using decent compilers like XL for POWER and ICC for Intel.
Eli Anderson
That ARM server board was $3k dumbshit. It should have lost in every benchmark too.
Mason Gray
read a book nigger