Re:CC500: a tiny self-hosting C compiler
by userbinator on Saturday November 08, 2014 @10:55AM
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The distinctions are quite arbitrary since there currently isn't anything like a size-competition for compilers, but if forced to make categories, I'd consider <1kLoC to be "tiny" and <10kLoC "small".
In contrast, GCC is nearing 10MLoC - 4 orders of magnitude difference - and its C parser alone is >10kLoC: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/c/c-parser...