Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:42:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:42:05 -0500 Received: from zeke.inet.com ([199.171.211.198]:14479 "EHLO zeke.inet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:42:04 -0500 Message-ID: <3E405207.8080207@inet.com> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:51:35 -0600 From: Eli Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry McVoy CC: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: gcc 2.95 vs 3.21 performance References: <1044385759.1861.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200302041935.h14JZ69G002675@darkstar.example.net> <20030204232101.GA9034@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1235 Lines: 32 Larry McVoy wrote: >>I'd love to see a small - and fast - C compiler, and I'd be willing to >>make kernel changes to make it work with it. > > > I can't offer any immediate help with this but I want the same thing. At > some point, we're planning on funding some extensions into GCC or whatever > reasonable C compiler is around: > > - associative arrays as a builtin type [snip] > - regular expressions [snip] > - tk bindings built in > > and then we'll port BK to that compiler. It's likely to be GCC because we > want to support all the different architectures but if a kernel sponsered > cc shows up we'll happily throw money at that. Ok, dumb, (and probably flamebait) question time: I read your list and thought "In C? Why not Python?" I'm guessing speed issues? Eli --------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram eli.carter(a)inet.com `------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/