aaron spink (aaronspink.delete@this.notearthlink.net) on August 19, 2019 4:05 am wrote:
> Jouni Osmala (fname.sname.delete@this.aalto.fi) on August 15, 2019 9:03 pm wrote:
> > Does that operate on C code or VHDL or what? Just curious if really fast
> > c compiler/linker with good optimizations would solve that problem.
> >
> It is an HDL to C object code flow instead of the more traditional interpreted flow (though those if
> anything are slower to compile). The HDL to C results in models that run significantly faster( order
> to orders of magnitude). In addition, it leverages all the benefits of a standard C flow over some
> proprietary interpreter including the robust testing and debug infrastructure and optimizations.
>
>

So C part of the tool chain has to deal with huge number of machine-generated modules with unusually high, relatively to hand-written C, proportion of global functions and variables?
I.e. something for which "major" compilers and linkers (gcc, llvm-clang, MSVC, ICC) were not really optimized?
Or is it even worse and generated modules are in C++?