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by wichtounet 9y ago
Seems to work quite well!
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by wichtounet 10y ago
This is an updated version of my previous benchmark with more recent compilers (GCC 5.4 and Clang 3.9). The results are almost the same as before, zapcc is about 2 times faster than GCC and 3.3 times faster than clang. This is only a compar
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Zapcc C++ compilation speed against gcc 5.4 and clang 3.9(baptiste-wicht.com)
2 points by wichtounet 10y ago|1 comments
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by wichtounet 10y ago
Normally, it should make almost difference compared to the code generated by the same version of clang on which zapcc is based. It may make a difference in the long term if they don't keep up to date with clang trunk.
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by wichtounet 10y ago
It's not free for commercial use. And it's probably the slowest compiler there is although the generated assembly is generally of incredible quality.
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by wichtounet 10y ago
You're right, I should emphasize on this on the conclusion ;)
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by wichtounet 10y ago
Unfortunately, it's quite inconvenient to use precompiled, there are a lot of limitations in each compiler. For instance, only the first header include a source file can be precompiled and other things like that, this is a more general
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by wichtounet 10y ago
It's probably highly subjective to make a description of what needs an OS to be an OS. For me, it would be to be able to boot on hardware, to be able to execute applications and to give these applications an abstract layer to the hardw
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by wichtounet 10y ago
That would be impossible, Thor cannot be brought down by any other than Jörmungandr. More seriously, I'll try to avoid reproducing the ping of death issue :)
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by wichtounet 10y ago
You can write a kernel in pretty much every language. There are some experiments with Rust: http://www.randomhacks.net/bare-metal-rust/ There are several reasons to choose a language rather than another. I personally d
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by wichtounet 10y ago
I'm using a few classes and some class hierarchy as well. I've reimplemented std::vector and std::string and a few other features from the STL and use them both in kernel space and user space (the STL is not standalone, need the g
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by wichtounet 10y ago
They are pretty good indeed to begin with. However, the best resource there is is clearly osdev.org, both the forums and the wiki are full of information!
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by wichtounet 10y ago
Nice :) I didn't know this project. I'll definitely read about this project.
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by wichtounet 10y ago
Hello. I'm the author of the mentioned project. It's indeed a very annoying opinion. Although there are indeed some difficulties in writing an operating system and quite some runtime support to implement, I would say that it'