From: | arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) |
Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
Date: | Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:14:22 -0000 (UTC) |
Organization: | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Keywords: | C, performance, comment |
Posted-Date: | 14 Sep 2016 21:31:40 EDT |
>BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>Do you use TCC to compile itself, or something like gcc?
>>
>>I'm just interested in whether it partly relies on gcc to get its speed!
Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>The default configure + make compiles tcc with gcc.
I should point out that a large part of tcc's speed comes from the
fact that it generates object code directly, instead of going
through the assembler. It might even have its own internal 'ld',
I'm not sure.
--
Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com
[Oh, like WATFOR and the original Dartmough BASIC. -John]
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