From: bc@freeuk.com   
      
   On 26/10/2025 16:07, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   > bart  writes:   
   >> On 26/10/2025 11:26, bart wrote:   
   >>> On 26/10/2025 06:25, Janis Papanagnou wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> So the following are after a restart of my PC:   
   >>   
   >>   Build CDECL under WSL (files were extracted before the restart):   
   >>      60/56 seconds instead 35/49 seconds for configure/make   
   >>   
   >>   My demo above running both compiler and interpreter from source:   
   >>      0.31 seconds instead of 0.21 seconds   
   >>   
   >>   New test of gcc compiling hello.c:   
   >>      1 second, settling down to 0.23 seconds on subsequent builds   
   >   
   > Get back to us when your "build + compiler" system will successfully   
   > build all the software that currently builds with autoconf, make and  gcc.   
      
   So you are telling me it is IMPOSSIBLE to build a product with the   
   specification of CDECL, entirely in portable C? You HAVE to use all   
   those extra utilities, macro languages and what-not?   
      
   Obviously, 'all the software' that currently builds with those tools   
   will have been designed and developed *with* those tools; they will be   
   essential dependencies.   
      
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