Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:51:35 -0600 | From | Eli Carter <> | Subject | Re: gcc 2.95 vs 3.21 performance |
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Larry McVoy wrote: >>I'd love to see a small - and fast - C compiler, and I'd be willing to >>make kernel changes to make it work with it. > > > I can't offer any immediate help with this but I want the same thing. At > some point, we're planning on funding some extensions into GCC or whatever > reasonable C compiler is around: > > - associative arrays as a builtin type [snip] > - regular expressions [snip] > - tk bindings built in > > and then we'll port BK to that compiler. It's likely to be GCC because we > want to support all the different architectures but if a kernel sponsered > cc shows up we'll happily throw money at that.
Ok, dumb, (and probably flamebait) question time: I read your list and thought "In C? Why not Python?" I'm guessing speed issues?
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