[becurious]

Did you ever work on the cross edition that would compile Windows apps for the Mac? I think that was a version 4 fork that never got another version.

[philiplu]

No, there were two devs working on the 68k Mac compiler, with ~10 devs on the x86 side (though both targets shared a lot of code and differed mainly in the late codegen and peephole optimization phases). I never worked on the 16-bit code; the 32-bit and later 64-bit x86 backend was a different codebase from the 16-bit stuff.

[becurious]

If I remember from poking around at the 16 bit version in that timeframe (1.52?) there was still an option to generate P-code and (this is now nearly thirty years ago) that was used by Excel to minimize code size for the segmented 16 bit systems.

[daemin]

Any idea how many devs are working at Microsoft on the C and C++ compilers these days? I've heard rumours that there's more on the Rust team and that C++ is taking a back seat.