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Re:FPGAs Have the Wrong Abstraction for Computing by ncmncm on Sunday June 23, 2019 @03:19PM (#20258069)
Clue: Gcc is Free Software too.

New languages typically are not implemented with Gcc, though. So, long term, LLVM probably wins.

Re:FPGAs Have the Wrong Abstraction for Computing by badamp on Sunday June 23, 2019 @03:57PM (#20258290)
I don’t follow.

Though gcc still trumps clang in some areas, neither gcc nor llvm beat the commercial compilers like ICC in a wide range of workloads.. obviously there is still a market for ICC and AOCC.

The original point was that open sourcing would necessarily lead to better performing tooling. And again to that I maintain... citation needed.