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Re: Converting the gcc backend to a library?
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Converting the gcc backend to a library?
- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie dot lokier at cern dot ch>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:13:42 +0100
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <10001101314.AA13803@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
Richard Kenner wrote:
> 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.
That's because no-one uses Java :-)
But imagine when TCL uses dynamic compilation (just a thought). I know
people who run quite a few TCL applications, e.g. for mail, news, info
browsing. Imagine when <ahem> Emacs uses dynamic compilation ;-)
I personally often have 2 Emacs processes running at a time -- one main
one, and another in an xterm for editing messages like this one.
That leaves Mozilla for Javascript and Java. And every Gnome scripted
application that use Guile.
enjoy,
-- Jamie