Re: [9fans] Compiling ken-cc on Linux

[Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com>]

On November 26, 2015 5:21:54 PM CST, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 26 November 2015 at 23:08, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Holy crap, that's crazy. I built it in debug mode on Linux, but I
>don't
>> think it used that much. I only have 6 GB right now!
>
>
>You have to remember that a C compiler is one of the largest, most
>complex
>software components that human beings have ever had to produce.
>The original C reference manual made it look deceptively easy, but
>really
>there's a ton of stuff going on in there, as you can see.
>How they ever got it going on a system with 64Kbytes of address space,
>I'll
>never know.

I read in LBAC that one compiler had about 80 passes. All of which stored their results on disk. I can't help but shudder at the thought of how long those things took to compile...
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