[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[John Wallace]

On May 1, 2:29 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <4f9f8a8b$0$6911$c3e8da3$9b4ff... at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> writes:
>
> > Say  HP would donate Alpha to the chinese for $9.99.
>
> > Would the current DEC compilers (maintained by HP) be of use to the
> > chinese if they wanted to go Linux ? (aka: is it easy to port an alpha
> > compiler from VMS/Tru64 to Linux for instance ?)
>
>    Why use DEC compilers with Linux?  Linux was ported to Alpha and used
>    the gnu compilers.
>
>    OK, I know the DEC compilers often generate better code, but the
>    world doesn't seem to care.  Nobody even seems to turn on compiler
>    optimization in UNIX land.

Why use DEC compilers with Linux Alpha? Same reason you'd run with
optimisation enabled with gcc - because performance is important to
some people?

There are still people interested in performance; they may not be very
visible in the general market but they include big spenders in well
established markets such as compute farms (everything from generic HPC
to commercial 3D render farms) and *maybe* cloud infrastructure
providers and others I forget to mention.