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Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
> Limited time and steep learning curves. Typically, researchers are
> interested in rapid-prototyping to keep the paper mill going. Plug-ins
> offers a simple method for avoiding the latencies of repeated bootstrap
> cycles.
I don't follow. If you're developing an optimizer, you need to do the
bootstrap to test the optimizer no matter how it connects to the rest
of the compiler. All you save is that you do a smaller link, but that
time is measured in seconds on modern machines.