Comment by pkaye

4 years ago

In comparison, you can get TCC (tiny compiler) which is 100KB in size and can produce 32/64 bit code, compile the Linux kernel and probably better optimizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler

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jart  4 years ago

TCC is non-optimizing and its 64-bit implementation was contributed by someone else and never finished. Borland Pascal has an IDE. Their executable has 7.141258 bits per byte of entropy. That's even higher than SectorLISP, a 436 byte development environment, which only has 6.300498 bits per byte of entropy. I wish I could travel back in time and the people who wrote Turbo Pascal could probably teach me a thing or two about size optimization tricks.

  • tomcam  4 years ago

    > I wish I could travel back in time and the people who wrote Turbo Pascal could probably teach me a thing or two about size optimization tricks.

    Uh you’re doing fine. You are a complete beast and deeply inspiring.

    P.S. At Microsoft I worked with Anders Hejlsberg, who created Turbo Pascal (and C#, typescript, etc.) I took full advantage of my position and peppered him with questions about compiler writing, which he endured with grace and good humor.

    • ngcc_hk  4 years ago

      Amazing opportunity. That software is just crazily good.

      The question is even with him can we do that for other software.