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Slightly off topic, but as one of the only people in the world who's written a C++ compiler by themselves, how many manhours would you estimate it would take to
by logicchains 11y ago
Slightly off topic, but as one of the only people in the world who's written a C++ compiler by themselves, how many manhours would you estimate it would take to update a C++03 compiler to fully support C++14? Or how many years; I think I remember reading you say somewhere that DMC++ took 10 years to code.
- WalterBright 11y agoI think I'm the only person who's written a complete C++ compiler by himself - preprocessor, parser, semantic analyzer, optimizer, and code generation. I also mean a C++98 compiler, because that's pretty much where I stopped. I don't know how much is involved in going from that to C++14, as I haven't done that. 10 man years is a good estimate for creating a C++ compiler, not including the C part nor the optimizer/codegen.