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Re: IBM compilers?

Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting that Apple abandon gcc in favor of IBM's compiler. I'm just hoping that, seeing as how Apple is a major consumer (read purchaser) of IBM's Power4 chips a.k.a. the G5, perhaps the Apple Xcode team could sit down with the IBM compiler team and trade some ideas on how to get the best possible performance out of code compiled for the G5 chip and incorporate those ideas into Xcode and gcc. Then again, I can also see how IBM wouldn't want to share, especially if they plan on making money from their compilers.

I don't know. As I said, I'm just speculating.

Rob

On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 08:44 AM, Michael Latta wrote:

I read a comment on the IBM compilers that they do not support Objective-C so I doubt they will be made standard in any Apple dev tool. Whether they will be supported for pure C/C++ projects is anyone's guess.


On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 12:54 PM, Rob Lockstone wrote:

Xcode can't be discussed on this forum, as it is still under NDA. Send specific questions about it to email@hidden.

But, not having Xcode and therefore not being bound by the NDA, I'd just like to speculate on how close the relationship between IBM's compiler engineers and Apple's compiler engineers is. It would be very cool if they could get together and help make Xcode (and perhaps gcc) as good as it possibly can be when generating code for the Power* chipset.

Rob

PS: Your "To:" line said "Project Builder Users Maling List". Maling? Hmmm, did you mean "Mailing" or perhaps "Mauling"? ;-)

On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 06:08 AM, Jeff DuMonthier wrote:

Has anyone tried the IBM PPC970 C/C++/Fortran compilers? Will they be integrated into PB/XCode as an option or replace gcc at some point? I have not downloaded them yet and there did not seem to be much of a description on IBM's site. I am assuming they are just Unix command line tools and would require something like PB or Codewarrior to provide an IDE.



-Jeff DuMonthier
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