[tom_mellior]

> And one cannot just throw away a backend and say that it's not part of the compiler.

OK. Let me rephrase: TCC doesn't have 35k lines of code, but with five minutes' work it could be turned into a compiler with 35k lines of code capable of bootstrapping GCC on Linux. That should be enough to compare it to the ones you list.

[vkazanov]

That's an interesting way to put it. :-D I believe we could do that to a lot of other compilers, say, lcc (30k) with its multiple backends and get something like 10-20k.

Anyways, what I was trying to say is that "tiny" in "tinycc" has lost its meaning already.