23 May
2025
23 May
'25
12:45 p.m.
On Fri, 23 May 2025, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
It is *such* a pity! I said similar sad words just
two days ago
when shortly touching linux-man@. That we lost (i only track your
git mirror of) it, and are left with only gigabyte monsters that
go universes beyond Ken Thompson's "reasonable optimizations"
(iirc), and tcc (luckily this we have). Here the built gcc ball
is 243 times larger than tcc's, and clang is 284 times larger
even!
I wish I had any idea what I was doing when it came to language
interpreters and compilers... These swiss-army-nukes epitomize "no kill
like overkill", but I prefer small, single-purpose tools.
A new lightweight C compiler with a focus on various varieties of x86 is
something I think would be useful and would do if I had any idea how to go
about it.
-uso.