Within the free software world, GCC has long been the dominant
compiler with it being backed by the Free Software Foundation, it being
the most well developed free compiler suite, and is a feature rich
offering that is put out under the GNU GPLv3. As of late, LLVM has also
been hitting the nail on the head. The Low-Level Virtual Machine with
its C/C++ Clang compiler front-end offers great performance, is
successful in building code-bases like the Linux kernel, its modular
design allows the compiler infrastructure to be used in areas like
graphics drivers, is under a BSD-style license, and carries numerous
other advantages. Other open-source compilers have advanced too,
including the release of PCC 1.0. Now there is a new and extremely
interesting option to shake the open-source compiler world: PathScale is
freely releasing the source to the EKOPath 4 Compiler Suite. EKOPath 4
is a high-performance compiler that up until now has been proprietary
and costs nearly $2000 USD per license, but now it's open-source and can
sharply outperform GCC in many computationally-intense workloads.
Read more at Phoronix.
PathScale Open-Sources The EKOPath 4 Compiler Suite @ Phoronix
Posted on Monday, June 13 2011 @ 22:45 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck