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Google Summer of Code 2010 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection

Partial Implementation of Python as a GCC Front-end

by redbrain for GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection

Testing the feasibility of building a dynamic language as an AOT (ahead-of-time) compiled language, and as a research project into optimizing dynamic language's in this manor. This project should also establish and maintain a running documentation of building a front-end in GCC with interfaces and Intermediate Representations GENERIC/GIMPLE documented in the GCC internals manual with possibly a working skeleton front-end similar to the old Tree-Lang.