TCC

These are Perl bindings to the Tiny C Compiler (TCC). TCC is a very fast, very 
small, and nearly compliant C-99 compiler (sans complex numbers, I believe). 
Some benchmarks claim that TCC compiles 7x faster than GCC. TCC does not apply 
the same sorts of optimizations as GCC, mind you, but it still compiles to 
machine code. Another important feature of TCC is that it can compile a string 
of C code to machine code without writing to file. In other words, it can be 
used as a Just In Time C compiler!

If you do not yet see my point, then consider this: Perl has excellent string
manipulation facilities. By combining Perl's ability to manipulate strings and
TCC's ability to quickly compile C code, we have an easy, fast way to
dynamically generate machine code. Perl's bytecode is fast, of course, but for
certain numerical work, this can lead to operations that are orders of magnitude
faster.

(Though, admitedly, I don't yet have the benchmarks to prove my point.)

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

	perl Build.PL
	./Build
	./Build test
	./Build install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.

    perldoc TCC

You can also look for information at:

    RT, CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)
        http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=TCC

    AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation
        http://annocpan.org/dist/TCC

    CPAN Ratings
        http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/TCC

    Search CPAN
        http://search.cpan.org/dist/TCC/


AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT

Written by David Mertens, Copyright 2011-2012 Northwestern University

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.