From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 19 21:33:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A8537B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:33:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from out002.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3D043F1E for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:33:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dacut@kanga.org) Received: from kanga.org ([151.201.19.185]) by out002.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20030120053346.GZMW7656.out002.verizon.net@kanga.org> for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:33:46 -0600 Message-ID: <3E2B8A5B.9070102@kanga.org> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:34:19 -0500 From: David Cuthbert Organization: Kanga International User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-au, en-nz, en-us, en- MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!) References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030119130825.00b21ee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030119133833.00e422f0@localhost> <200301201620.37863.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> <3E2B89EC.4000107@kanga.org> In-Reply-To: <3E2B89EC.4000107@kanga.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at out002.verizon.net from [151.201.19.185] at Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:33:45 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Cuthbert wrote: [...] there's no reason a translator from IL->cpu instructions can't be > written. To clarify: by this, I mean a stage 2 compilation, not a JIT translator. This is similar to what GCC already does. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message