From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Good enough approximation for ape/pcc From: Brantley Coile Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:34:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <229aaef51090aa24504f7f55d106b8c2@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 34180fca-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > i think the gcc folks have different goals. they seem very interested in > lots of very sophisticated optimizations and support for every odd corner case. Or they might just like writing stuff for the compiler, personal entertainment. Or they like seeing their names on gcc.gnu.org projects pages. Or they really think that all this work makes some difference. I don't know anyone who works on the beast, so I've no real clue as to why people continue to spend time on this monster. Let's just move Ken's C compiler everywhere.