gcc rewritten in C++: end of an era for C

http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=2b15d2ba7eb3a25dfb15a7300f4ee7a141ee8539

They're making heavy use of classes and templates. How does it feel?

Feels like my old AMD CPU will take 300% more time to compile GCC.

>>2
And GCC will take even longer to compile even C programs.

>>3
Why?

>>3
C stops being faster than C++ the moment you write a function pointer.

>>5
Oh.

Why?

>>5
That's assuming you don't use templates or exceptions.

both languages are crap

>>5
Function pointers aren't slow, you dimwit.

>>6
ignore him, he's just trolling

 

August 2026: GCC starts being rewritten in java

>2012
>not rewriting your operating system in node.js

GCC in JavaScript: http://bellard.org/jslinux/

I think gcc is trying to compete with llvm by being more modular in order to improve error detection

>>14
It is an emulator. You can write one even in brainfuck.

>>15
Guess the are attempting to trigger errors by making heavy usage of classes and templates. In an attempt to catch bugs.

>>1
A couple of years ago I was heavy into the backend. Stuff was shit difficult, and debugging through it wasn't the easiest of tasks, as it was not always easy or fast to get to certain 'places of interest'. I find debugging classes and especially templates more difficult than plain C, basically because of the obfuscation overloading introduces.

Imagining that these two have intercourse must truly result in Frankensteins monster.