Am I the only one...

who thinks GCC sucks? Not the compiling engine, but the interface to it. It's made of confusing, illogical, error prone options with stupid default values, and the idea of calling everyone and their mother itself (and mix everyone's options together) is as bad as penis cancer. For example, -s is passed directly to the linker, yet -rpath isn't; -Wall and most of -Wstuff controls warnings, yet -Wl is some kind of hack to pass comma-separated arguments to the linker, especially the ones not supported by gcc; etc. Whoever did this has a disturbed mind. And I think I know who did this.

Anyways, is there a sane interface which provides completely separate, non-automagical preprocessor+compiler, assembler, and linker, with well thought out options?

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New pentiums use risc, a cycle an instruction, and microcodes (or whatever they are called) on top of it. 1 cycle can be a unit. And you can measure from there.

Also in non-risc machines, you can assign points to this and that instruction and make a good approximation of it.

I imagine it will get pretty complicated for more than the fibonacci function.