[joosters]

Thousands of words written about how, specifically, gcc produces poor slow code ('the application users' time is more valuable than their time') and yet the article never tries to measure how slow or fast any of their examples are.

I mean, maybe it is true that gcc is bad, maybe it isn't, but complaining that a function takes 27 bytes and it could have been written in 25 is missing the point entirely when you are asking for speed. Does it run fast or not?