[TUHS] Off topic: Does anyone know what's going on with the PCC Revived project?

[Dan Cross]

On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
> 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 at .  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.

Well, there's https://github.com/rui314/chibicc, which is pretty small
and seems decent (caveat that I haven't used it, though).

        - Dadn C.