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> I've build gcc many times over the years for different target processors > and was never able to get my head around it internally. It is incredibly > complex. I also didn't like the fact that I had to have N copies of gcc > to support N processors. Scott McPeak is rather familiar with the internals of gcc and edg and says elsa is far simpler. > I became interested in Elsa (via google) because I liked its extensible > nature. I can drop in new syntax rules easily. It was also fairly easy > to understand. We worked very hard to make it that way j...

...> I've build gcc many times over the years for different target processors >> and was never able to get my head around it internally. It is incredibly >> complex. I also didn't like the fact that I had to have N copies of gcc >> to support N processors. > > Scott McPeak is rather familiar with the internals of gcc and edg and > says elsa is far simpler. I agree, very much. > >> I became interested in Elsa (via google) because I liked its extensible >> nature. I can drop in new syntax rules easily. It was also fairly easy >> to understand...

Chris Lattner wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Richard Pennington wrote: > >> I'm a little further along now. I've started to put together a simple >> driver for Elsa and LLVM that I'm calling "ellsif" (cute name, I think >> it works). >> >> The file being compiled is a "printf" function. Here are timing >> results