Open Office is JAVA :P
On 10/17/07, Diego Biurrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Sylvain Bertrand wrote:
> > 2007/10/17, Diego Biurrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:14:01PM +0200, Sylvain Bertrand wrote:
> > > > 2007/10/17, pancake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > > Yup, i am the maintainer of this compiler in pkgsrc since 2003.
> > > > >
> > > > > The projects looks like a bit stopped but I like it very much then
> > > > > and now.
> > > > > The scripting feature is quite cool and nice for some things like
> > > > > parsing raw structures from the shell and similar things when the
> > > > > compilation stage is senseless or molest.
> > > > >
> > > > > AFAIK it can compile Linux, but i didn't had a try. Maybe together
> > > > > with
> > > > > pcc it can raise a new lightweight C compiler era ;)
> > > > >
> > > > > About tcc.. i wanted to say that the assembly generated is quite
> > > > > cleaner than the GCC one. so this doesn't means to be as optimal as
> > > > > in GCC
> > > > > but performs quite ok and the code is clenaer.
> > > >
> > > > A thing that would be funny to test: use tcc to compile things like
> > > > OpenOffice or Gecko based browsers. If that works, I wonder how this
> > > > software would perform. Maybe Gentoo should really think about
> > > > including it in it's C compiler suite
> > > > Fabrice Bellard is the creator of ffmpeg and qemu, then I would
> > > > recommend to keep an eye on tcc.
> > >
> > > tcc is a C-only compiler, so you will not get very far compiling
> > > Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko, which is C++...
> > >
> > Ooops! In my mind mozilla/OO are written using C. Too bad it's C++. I
> > would never risk myself in a even non optimizing C++ compiler.
>
> I don't know about OOo, just Mozilla*.
>
> Diego
>
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