From: Paul Guertin <paul@guertin.net>
To: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: C compiler in 512 bytes
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 07:29:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2f65600-d11b-5135-ca42-304ee81ec5eb@guertin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2MEkcmvf0WiMnV90T_4k0ArdS71H+Le18T3H0CeEF2XFQ@mail.gmail.com>
I must admit my initial reaction was "Why is everyone so
excited about this? A subset-of-C compiler in 512 lines is
a nice exercise but nothing really spec...
Wait, _bytes_?"
A beautiful hack indeed, and nicely written up as well.
P.
Dixit Clem Cole (2023-05-24 21:06):
> This is an outstanding hack. So creative. SW bloat is such a problem.
> It’s nice to see a minimalistic view — What do I really need to do the
> job - ie reminds me of John Mashey’s old “Small is Beautiful” ACM lectures.
>
> Thanks for passing it along.
>
> Clem
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 8:15 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com
> <mailto:imp@bsdimp.com>> wrote:
>
> This appeared in my news feed and hacker news.
> https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html <https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html>
>
> Warner
>
> --
> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-06 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-25 0:14 [COFF] " Warner Losh
2023-05-25 0:47 ` [COFF] " Larry McVoy
2023-05-25 1:06 ` Clem Cole
2023-05-25 6:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-09-06 11:29 ` Paul Guertin [this message]
2023-05-25 5:26 ` Arno Griffioen via COFF
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