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Your definition of reliability seems different to how people use the word. I think most would consider a program that was statically checked, but often produces a wrong result as l…

It's decided by function use_register_for_decl in gcc: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/releases/gcc-12/gcc/f... With -g -O0 register is only used in special cases like using…

I recommend doing some experiments before considering no register allocation unbearingly slow. I once tried running Gentoo with everything compiled -O0 and the user experience with…

Oh I believe in theory a 50Mhz CPU is capable of doing almost everything I need, but it just lacks the software optimized for it. I think a week to compile everything is too optimi…

While I love the idea of self-hosting HW and SW, I can't even imagine the pain of building stuff like GCC on 60Mhz CPU. Not to mention the Rocket CPU is written in Scala. I recentl…

You might be interested in Arcan desktop engine ( https://arcan-fe.com ), which has a tui api for clients. It has been used to build an interesting experimental shell: https://arca…