Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: alt.os.development Subject: Re: Smaller C Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 20:28:59 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <1debc959-af42-490a-ac12-568e59fa441a@googlegroups.com> <163b3e27-19a9-406b-8d65-e21a1b5c110d@googlegroups.com> <9e8d0137-ac84-44df-8c30-b68359d25391@googlegroups.com> <91546be3-19a4-48f0-9a47-8d5d8e82d314@googlegroups.com> <034f736c-b852-4151-a18e-ae3447f39dbf@googlegroups.com> <3efea5b5-4991-4fd8-b29f-8728b7fc8791@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com alt.os.development:8900 On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 04:00:30 -0400, Alexei A. Frounze wrote: > On Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 4:39:50 PM UTC-7, Rod Pemberton wrote: >> On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 05:06:37 -0400, Alexei A. Frounze <...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > The generated code is quite "bloated". There are many unnecessary >> > instructions (moves, sing/zero-extensions, jumps, etc) and >> > registers are used rather inefficiently. >> >> So, it's time to construct your own more efficient language. > > Was that a joke or a failure to realize that the poor code is being > generated as a result of simplicity of the compiler (in both design > and implementation)? > Neither. Suggestion, speculative. RP -- Just how many texting and calendar apps does humanity need? Just how many food articles from neurotic millenials do we need?