a
href="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/" >TCC</a>, was up to 100KiB
and could compile a Linux kernel from scratch in 10 seconds.</p>

<p>Looking at <b>disassembled code from <a
href="http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/bigforth.html">Bernd Paysan's
bigFORTH</a></b>
showed me that a code generator could be really very simple.  (The
bigFORTH web page says, "The compiler generates optimized native code
for the i386.", but I don't know what meaning of "optimized" Bernd has
in mind.)  bigFORTH gets <a
href="http://s