#!/usr/bin/env -S nim r --cc:tcc -d:useMalloc --verbosity:0 --hints:off --tlsEmulation:on --passL:-lm
echo "Hello from Nim via TCC!"
1.151 +- 0.028 ms (AlreadySubtracted)Overhead
1.219 +- 0.037 ms bash -c exit
2.498 +- 0.040 ms fish --no-config --private -c exit
1.682 +- 0.058 ms perl -e 'exit 0'
1.621 +- 0.043 ms gawk 'BEGIN{exit 0}'
15.8 +- 2.2 ms python3 -c 'exit(0)'
20.0 +- 5.7 ms node -e 'process.exit(0)'
-2.384 +- 0.041 ms tcc -run x.c
153.2 +- 4.6 ms nim r --cc:tcc x.nim
164.5 +- 1.2 ms nim r --cc:tcc -d:release x.nim
You are using the compiler to compile itself.
"TCC is its own test set." Absolutely brilliant.
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Full_002dSour...
But that would require terminally online frogs acting in their collective interests, not isolating at home hoping the heat never reaches them.
The authors say, basically, that there's a risk of prosecution in the UK that would financially devastate anyone that works on the project, and that the act of determining how to comply with UK laws is itself an extremely resource-intensive legal task that they can't or won't do. In other words, they're geoblocking the UK not out of activism but out of pragmatic self-preservation.
That's not in any way mutually exclusive with collective action.
...also, couldn't deciding to geoblock the UK be a form of collective action? If that's what you originally meant, I sincerely apologize for reading it backwards.
>The idea is to provide unmoderated side channel for random contributors to work on a project, with similar rationale as e.g. Wikipedia - that given enough interested people, the quality will grow rapidly and occassional "vandalism" will get fixed quickly. Of course this may not work nearly as well for software, but here we are, to give it a try.
A small and minimalistic C compiler is actually a very important foundational project for the software world IMNSHO.
I'm definitely reminded of: https://xkcd.com/2347/
/* add a file (either a C file, dll, an object, a library or an ld script). Return -1 if error. */
int tcc_add_file(TCCState *s, const char *filename);
/* compile a string containing a C source. Return non zero if error. */
int tcc_compile_string(TCCState *s, const char *buf);Tiny C, Small C are names I seem to recall, buts its very fuzzy - Not sure if they were compilers, may have been interpreters....
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniq...
It’s focused on theory and very heavy on parsing. All of that is fine, but not especially useful for the hobbies.