Comment Re:I often disagree with RMS, but... (Score 1) 476
That's not true in general, and not true specifically when generating SIMD code for SSE4 or ARM NEON.
All the latest GCC versions 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 have serious regressions in SIMD optimizations, it actually went backwards in efficiency over the years.
Final code efficiency is the primary reason why I needed to switch to Clang.
It is a real pain btw to have to have two C compilers for a single embedded device!