tcc is interesting. The code generation is pretty simplistic (read:
trivially horrible for most things), but it sure is fast and small. And
judging by the changelog, Fabrice is trying to compile the kernel with
it.
For a lot of problems, small-and-fast is good. Hell, some of the things
I'd personally find interesting don't have any code generation part at
all (static analysis of annotated source-code - stanford checker on the
cheap). And development doesn't always need good code generation (right
now some people use "gcc -O0" for that, because anything else hurts too
much. Now, the code from tcc will probably look more like "-O-1", but
at least you can test out things _quickly_).
Linus
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