[Info-vax] Future comparison of optimized VSI x86 compilers vs Linux compilers

[onewingedshark at gmail.com]

On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 2:07:44 PM UTC-6, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> Learning more about the topic?  For x86-64 and Arm and some other 
> platforms, LLVM is a good starting point for writing a compiler, too.
> 
> https://github.com/banach-space/llvm-tutor
> https://github.com/ghaiklor/llvm-kaleidoscope
> etc...
I'm not really interested in learning LLVM, even though I am working on a compiler; the simple reason being that I'm not exactly interested in investing in something only to get software-churned into 'deprecated' in a year's time. [My compiler is Ada-in-Ada, SPARK where possible. The ideal goal being a provable compiler, which should be useful in certification.]

As to portability, I'd mentioned BLISS because it's a stable well-used piece of VMS already. There are other options.