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Re: Converting the gcc backend to a library?
- To: jamie dot lokier at cern dot ch
- Subject: Re: Converting the gcc backend to a library?
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 00 08:14:03 EST
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Not so. Consider a dynamic compilation environment such as Java,
Guile, Perl or even Emacs Lisp if such things were that easy. Every
interpreter-come-compiler uses an instance of the shared library.
Yes, I do understand that. But my point is that in today's
single-user workstation environment, how many processes that actually
would use the GCC shared library would actually be simultaneously
running in practice? I still believe that number is very small and
only rarely over one.