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

[Bakul Shah via TUHS]

In May 23, 2025, at 5:45 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.

There are a number of such efforts. Apart from the ones
already mentioned, there are at least
  https://git.sr.ht/~mcf/cproc & https://www.simple-cc.org/
May be you can help them out....

The difficulty is in maintaining such compilers, standard
compliance, complete toolchains for supported platforms, other
support programs, dealing with platform changes etc.

Machines are fast enough (for me) and I would love it if I
can compile the (FreeBSD) kernel + most of the userland using 
a fast & simple compiler but that is just not possible as
some compiler specific dependencies have slowly crept in
standard header files.