:LinuxDevices: Open Source Compiler Demos Speed, Compactness With Boottime Compile Trick
LinuxDevices: Open Source Compiler Demos Speed, Compactness With Boottime Compile Trick Nov 1, 2004, 09 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (6730 reads)
"A project to build a C compiler small enough to enable C to be used as a scripting language has released an impressive technology demonstration: a bootloader that uses the Tiny C Compiler (TCC) to compile a Linux kernel from source at boot-time in as little as 15 seconds.
"TCCBoot is framed on creator Fabrice Bellard's website as a demonstration application for Bellard's Tiny C Compiler (TCC), described as 'a tiny but complete ISOC99 C compiler which enables you to use C as scripting language...'"
