[bootstrappable] Re: prototyping the full source bootstrap path
- From: "Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)" <OriansJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bootstrappable@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bootstrappable@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:59:16 +0000
It wouldn’t really help in that mescc+/guilecc is just as capable as the
earlier mescc, no?
There is however a real difference in terms of performance, guile is simply
faster
Indeed, Guile needs a C compiler.
Technically, it could be built from a lisp compiler
In general, we need a C compiler early on… unless we have replacements for
Bash
Rain1 is working on that
Coreutils, etc. written in Guile or Mes, which would allow us to strip bits
of the tip of the DAG.
Actually we only need a core subset of coreutils that mescc can compile, which
ironically is a small job should one use openbsd's core as a base
Essentially build from the stage0-seed to mescc, build the essentials only,
then simply add pieces as we need them.
No need to make this any more complex than it already is.
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