On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 09:13:20AM +0100, Giacomo Tesio wrote:
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> I know nothing about compilers, but actually gcc and clang dimension and
> complexity is astonishing.
It's not astonishing: it's research. They want to prove that a black
hole does exist. So they write a "model", a software implementation of
black holes that is, indeed, able to absorb every bit of RAM, every
block of disk, every CPU cycle so that whatever is put in a computer,
nothing can ever go out. And the thing finally collapses due to its very
size: so big that no one is able to understand and correct it. Then it
is called: "standard", a de facto no varietur, not because it is perfect
not to mention useful, but because it is impossible to evolve.
It's a kind of success (though there are a lot of competing
implementations of software black holes, improving almost endlessly:
less and less signal, more and more noise).
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