Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 16:33:52 -0600 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Compiler design in C? References: <0915fef9-bb57-48b7-b98a-342f0e5ee39f@googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:33:52 +0000 Message-ID: <87shr14n5b.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PGwLndh7h1fEgXq1izY8nOdfFdY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-jQ8xfoEIPhu0Rhul8TDYicfeh9ybpYF/TzNXngDFY5Gc6o5zrtdSQTej7R7IZC5q7Leab5Lq8Tq2ykb!QC0XjMnAMlYpqivbQTpsFnlSddLO9VqapYXStdJEwxTCaqg2HS8vs4V0/oHvdpCVPLX1 X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1564 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:96153 jacobnavia writes: > Le 08/11/2016 à 21:12, David Brown a écrit : > >> C++ is the obvious choice if you want a fast compiler. > > What? > > It is incredible the things that C++ heads will tell people? A c++ > compiler is incredibly slow. lcc-win is 4 or 5 times faster than gcc > even when gcc is just compiling C. GCC isn't written in C++.