Re: Spinlocks on SGI's

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Robert E. Bruccoleri wrote:

> BTW, SGI is distributing its compilers for Linux/Intel under an
> open source license.  Depending on the progress of Intel chips
> versus MIPS chips, the cost issue of the compilers on SGI's will
> eventually disappear.

Do you mean their ia64 compiler?

There's a reason that that one's GPLed -- it uses the
gcc frontend.

Matthew.