Author: Simon Waters
Date: 11:21:42 08/07/01
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On August 03, 2001 at 21:10:12, Dann Corbit wrote: > >If I just wanted to play chess on FICS, I would rather use Winboard to do it. Or xboard *8-) >Similarly, I don't think that tools like GCC will ever hurt the compiler sales >for the commercial vendors. I have GCC, but also buy every compiler in sight if >I think it can help me to do my job better. Actually I bet GCC eats into compiler sales no end. Look at Solaris - do you know anyone who buys Forte C ? The chess world, and Windows world is slightly different as MS VC offers performance gains, and a GUI. In the Unix world where we expect compilers to conform to standard interfaces, they are almost interchangable. Most non-chess programmers aren't bothers by the few percentage points that the commercial compilers may give them in performance. In fact GCC is faster on many platform for "real world" applications, just the boring benchmark code, where knowing the CPU better can gain points, and being clever on the big picture optimisations doesn't help most benchmarks. >Free stuff like that really has no downside, that I can see. I think the reverse question is worth asking. Do free programmers resent having their ideas used by commercial programmers, whilst the commercial advances are "closed" in many cases? Dr Hyatt care to comment?
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