LLVM ist a mess

Posted Mar 19, 2024 4:42 UTC (Tue) by buck (subscriber, #55985)
In reply to: LLVM ist a mess by paulj
Parent article: Cranelift code generation comes to Rust

> I was just pointing out the humour in the irony of making that point via an example written by an author who has a (prodigious) habit of solving difficult problems. ;)

Well, I'm with you: a compiler written by Fabrice Bellard is not your run-of-the-mill hobby project.

But, I'm really more just pointing out that this still blows me away:

https://bellard.org/jslinux/index.html

which i think saves this comment from being (rightly) criticized for being OT, since it's more Linux-y than the article, and this is LWN after all, dang it.

Well, to get this right back on topic, i can actually just point out that JSLinux features tcc and gcc but not clang:

localhost:~# cat readme.txt
Some tests:

- Compile hello.c with gcc (or tcc):

gcc hello.c -o hello
./hello

- Run QuickJS:

qjs hello.js

- Run python:

python3 bench.py
localhost:~#

b/c the performance win:

[`time gcc -o hello -c hello.c -O0` output elided to spare my old laptop's feelings]