On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Jeff Hammond wrote:
Self-hosted compilers are interesting from the standpoint of "eat your own
dogfood". For example, I wonder if OpenMP implementations would be better
if compiler authors were forced to parallelize the guts of their compilers
with OpenMP :-)
Interesting thought.
A bit like making accountants wear the responsibility of their decision!
My 2c (used C++ for 32 years and I like/use it a lot for applications)
Only ever seem one C++ compiler application that was really clean.
What about others?
Keep it Simple. Stay with C for compiling.
Ultimately you will want to produce compile backends direct from 'chpl'.
C is likely to be a lot easier reference point from which to start.
Another example of not eating dogfood is that many Linux kernel developers
actually use Macs.
Now that is another argument! Better for a discussion over a beer.
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