Potential of a compiler that creates the executable at once

[Era Scarecrow]

On Friday, 11 February 2022 at 17:36:03 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> If one wants to get really historic it is also what made Turbo 
> Pascal did up to version 3.0. With Turbo Pascal 4.0 they went 
> back to more classic object file/linker

  Mmm hard to say on various compilers, i never had the money when 
i was younger to pay for said compilers/toolsets, and now most of 
them (*current popular ones*) are free (*Might have a couple 
Turbo Compiler with a C++ programming book, but never touched 
it*).

  No doubt many earlier commercial compilers didn't have separate 
architectures and probably just did x86. But it's been a long 
time since the 16-bit MS-DOS age when that was more common.

  Though if optimizations are dropped you can probably have a very 
lean toolset, maybe even to build an entire distro from sources 
on a CD. Though last time i tried to build Libc it took a very 
long time, not recommended.