Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:07:28 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: <861q4ujfa7.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <20240613002933.000075c5@yahoo.com> <20240613174354.00005498@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:07:28 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d4aeba7b4aaab0d94b94221c1561c3e8"; logging-data="1536444"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18icDfNoZLPB5QBXEbOjmcXwBoy8KVtBno=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SGY7WWo39TdtyrNT4Vdf3rK1Ock= sha1:zo/UZ3Ya/AvHjx3c/PbB0wk5ydA= Bytes: 2123 bart writes: > On 18/06/2024 14:39, James Kuyper wrote: > >> On 17/06/2024 21:24, bart wrote: >> ... >> >>> If you don't need optimised code right now, why would you invoke gcc >>> rather than tcc? It's a no-brainer. >> >> On virtually every occasion when I've heard someone claim that a given >> decision is a no-brainer, I would generally make a different decision if >> I actually applied my brain to the issue. This is no exception. > > So your brain would tell you to choose a tool which takes at least 10 > times as long to do the same task? "When two people do the same thing, it's not exactly the same." - the ancient playwright Terence