Geoff Langdale (geoff.langdale.delete@this.gmail.com) on July 28, 2020 5:04 pm wrote:
> Did they ever finish the compiler? The thing I find sketchy about Mill is not the lack of silicon,
> but the fact that they never seemed to get around to finish a compiler big enough to compile non-trivial
> benchmarks and run them on an architectural simulator. Their wiki lists their llvm backend as "still
> in development" and they have a placeholder link for the compiler but no actual page about the compiler.
> The only stuff I can find is from 2014/2015 - a couple forum posts and a talk.
>
> Geoff.

Yeah... this project is never going anywhere.

Mostly we’ve been working with tests in C; currently 95+% of the suite compile. The C++ library is coming up because we are doing the OS kernel in C++, but it’s really only starting. Of course compile-time only code like the STL ports easily, but the rest will be a lot of work. The only part that is not just a port-and-debug is throw/catch, for which the standard implementation approach doesn’t work on a bare machine. We know what we will do, but that will be new code, which is slow to produce while we are still elfing things out.

https://millcomputing.com/topic/news/#post-3450