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> And one cannot just throw away a backend and say that it's not part of the compiler. OK. Let me rephrase: TCC doesn't have 35k lines of code, but with five m
by tom_mellior 7y ago
> And one cannot just throw away a backend and say that it's not part of the compiler.
OK. Let me rephrase: TCC doesn't have 35k lines of code, but with five minutes' work it could be turned into a compiler with 35k lines of code capable of bootstrapping GCC on Linux. That should be enough to compare it to the ones you list.
- vkazanov 7y agoThat's an interesting way to put it. :-D I believe we could do that to a lot of other compilers, say, lcc (30k) with its multiple backends and get something like 10-20k. Anyways, what I was trying to say is that "tiny" in "tinycc" has lost its meaning already.