[qarl]

> the level of performance isn't stated in the linked article so a parser in Python is probably sufficient.

No, you'll have to match the performance of the actual code, regardless of what happens to be written in the article. It is a C compiler written in Rust.

Obviously. Your games reveal your malign intent.

EDIT: And good LORD. Who writes a C compiler in python. Do you know any other languages?!?

[lelanthran]

> No, you'll have to match the performance of the actual code, regardless of what is in the article. It is a C compiler written in Rust.

Look, it's clear that you don't hire s/ware developers very much - your specs are vague and open to interpretation, and it's also clear that I do get hired often, because I pointed out that your spec isn't clear.

As far as "playing games" goes, I'm not allowing you to change your single-sentence spec which, very importantly, has "must match performance", which I shall interpret to as "performance of emitted code" and not "performance of compiler".

> Your games reveal your intent.

It should be obvious to you by know that I've done this sort of thing before. The last C compiler I wrote was 95% compliant with the (at the time, new) C99 standard, and came to around 7000LoC - 8000LoC of C89.

> EDIT: And good LORD. Who writes a C compiler in python. Do you know any other languages?!?

Many. The last language I implemented (in C99) took about two weeks after hours (so, maybe 40 hours total?), was interpreted, and was a dialect of Lisp. It's probably somewhere on Github still, and that was (IIRC) only around 2000LoC.

What you appear to not know (maybe you're new to C) is that C was specifically designed for ease of implementation.

1. It was designed to be quick and easy to implement.

2. The extensions in GCC to allow building bootable Linux images are minimal, TBH.

3. The actual 16-bit emission necessary for booting was not done by CC, but by shelling out to GCC.

4. The 100kLoC does not include the tests; it used the GCC tests.

I mean, this isn't arcane and obscure knowledge, you know. You can search the net right now and find 100s of undergrad CS projects where they implement enough of C to compile many compliant existing programs.

I'm wondering; what languages did you write an implementation for? Any that you designed and then implemented?