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Larry McVoy wrote:
>>I'd love to see a small - and fast - C compiler, and I'd be willing to
>>make kernel changes to make it work with it.  
> 
> 
> I can't offer any immediate help with this but I want the same thing.  At
> some point, we're planning on funding some extensions into GCC or whatever
> reasonable C compiler is around:
> 
>     - associative arrays as a builtin type
[snip]
>     - regular expressions
[snip]
>     - tk bindings built in
> 
> and then we'll port BK to that compiler.  It's likely to be GCC because we
> want to support all the different architectures but if a kernel sponsered
> cc shows up we'll happily throw money at that.

Ok, dumb, (and probably flamebait) question time:  I read your list and 
thought "In C? Why not Python?"  I'm guessing speed issues?

Eli
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