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		chvid 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC What does the smallest (simplest in terms of complexity / lines of code) C-compiler that can compile and run SQLite look like? Perhaps that would be a more telling benchmark to evaluate the Claude compiler against.

measurablefunc 22 days ago | [–]

Not as simple as it could be but I doubt anyone will manage to beat Fabrice Bellard: https://www.bellard.org/tcc/

tmtvl 22 days ago | [–]

I don't know for certain that it can compile and run SQLite, but the smallest C compiler I know of is SectorC: <https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html>

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