Re: The development tendency of compilation tech?

"Derek M. Jones" wrote:


> Hello Yunzhi Xue,
>
> > I'm working on a survey of the development tendency of compilation
> > technology. But there are too many issues and I am such a Green
> > Hand. So could anybody please tell my about the possible major trend
> > of compilation tech?
>
> > [So what's new in compilers this year? -John]
>
>
> Can we predict how long it will be before gcc is the world's only C
> compiler? It provides tough competition and there are not many
> commercial vendors left.


GCC is showing its age. It does make the risk of new compiler idea's
much higher. It also shows that support provides a viable revenue
stream.


GCC has made few inroads in application areas where tool price is a
small percentage of development costs.


GCC based tools have made very little inroads into volume small
embedded applications, processors with unusual instruction sets or
multiple processor applications




> o the effort required to write a commercial quality compiler
> will continue to grow and fewer and fewer of them will be written.


No argument. Good compiler implementation is a labor intensive activity.


My trend choice is multiprocessor support from a single source
application. It is happening now in specialized applications.


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