Potential of a compiler that creates the executable at once

[max haughton]

On Friday, 11 February 2022 at 17:44:45 UTC, Stanislav Blinov 
wrote:
> On Friday, 11 February 2022 at 17:36:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
>> I pulled just this week, and running `wc` on *.d *.c *.h 
>> says...
>
> https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc would yield a more practical 
> metric, at least as far as "practical metric" in terms of LoC 
> goes.

```
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language                             files          blank        
comment           code
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D                                     3867          75824         
  88426         431299
HTML                                   114          11405         
    967          61083
C/C++ Header                            57           2729         
    992          23332
C                                       93            830         
    797           3346
C++                                     19            532         
    139           2249
```
this includes the test suite and other stuff that isn't 
technically the compiler-proper.