On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:45:56 PST David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well if I were funded and had an infinite amount of time I'd think LLVM for > Plan 9 would be excellent, as well as Go on LLVM :-).
llvm port would need c++. $ size /usr/local/bin/clang text data bss dec hex filename 22842862 1023204 69200 23935266 16d3922 /usr/local/bin/clang 1.2+ Million LOC in **/*.cpp **/*.h (though this includes tests etc.) Even gcc is smaller now! It boggles my mind they chose C++ instead of one of Scheme, Ocaml, Haskell or CL. Then there is libfirm (in C) which uses Cliff Click's ideas of a low level graph based intermediate representation. Seemed quite promising when I looked at it (a couple of years ago). It is much smaller than llvm (where they can be compared). But looks like most of funding oxygen has been going to llvm. http://pp.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/firm/Main_Page
