I remember benchmarking plan9 C against gcc waaay back; 1999 or so. Gcc'd programs were a fair bit faster. And I was compiling and running the programs under cygwin under Windows95!
I did this partly because plan9 had published some source code and times on a system with exactly the same hardware as mine - AMD k6/350.
I suspect the plan9 compiler hasn't had nearly as many changes since then so the gap would be much wider.
I acknowledge compile time is important also - and this is where the plan9/golang people have made a reasonable trade-off.
I did this partly because plan9 had published some source code and times on a system with exactly the same hardware as mine - AMD k6/350.
I suspect the plan9 compiler hasn't had nearly as many changes since then so the gap would be much wider.
I acknowledge compile time is important also - and this is where the plan9/golang people have made a reasonable trade-off.