[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kenner) writes: > > 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.
But users who are not gcc developers have trouble doing a bootstrap. Our build process is complicated, and it is not getting simpler. And the sorts of researchers that dnovillo is talking about don't need to do a bootstrap routinely. They are experimenting with new optimizations or with static analysis. They aren't generating actual code. A bootstrap is beside the point. Ian
