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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Compiler design in C?
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 08/11/2016 22:33, Gareth Owen wrote:
>> jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> 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++.
>
> Apparently they moved to C++ a few years ago.

There's very little C++ in there though.  The vast majority of it is a
slightly weird idiomatic C.