Re:Ummmm . . . (Score 2, Interesting)

After I read "AIX is irrelavant," I read a little further, hoping to find the necessary justification for such a statement. When I didn't find it, I stopped reading. I appreciate the point he's trying to make, but randomly firing shots across IBM's bow doesn't so much aid his argument as reveal a gross personal bias. That said, perhaps GCC doesn't need to support AIX, when much better alternatives (VAC/XLC) exist. Anyone who can pony up the dough for a nice POWER box can probably ought to pitch for a good compiler too. :) Even in Linux, XLC will run circles around GCC. But then, that all goes back to the question of GCC's purpose in life . . . broad support, or good performance. I'm not convinced you can have both, and I don't think there's any real middleground between them.