Re: [Tinycc-devel] 4 bugfixes for Rob Landley's revision 470

[Gregg Reynolds]

On 9/6/07, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> If you consider starting TCC from scratch you might look into other
> small open source compilers like http://sourceforge.net/projects/nwcc/
>
Good Lord, it never ends.  Just what I need, another interesting
little project to lead me down yet another path!  (...must resist,
must resist...)

Seriously, it would be worth taking a look at such projects.  I've
looked at a few before (briefly).  But the main thing the draws me to
tcc is speed. If it's X times faster than gcc, that adds up to
enormous savings in the development cycle.  If we can study it and
describe it structurally, so we can categorize it in terms of abstract
implementation design choices, so much the better.  Now, if one of
those other projects competes with tcc for speed, well, you'd have to
look at it seriously to see how, at least.  But rewriting from scratch
is too much for me, at the moment anyway.  I earnestly hope that I can
get tcc running on cygwin in the near future, after which I'll want to
use it, but probably not develop it - too many other irons in the
fire.

Thanks,

gregg