alt Hacker NewsHow much of this result is effectively plagiarized open source compiler code? I don't understand how this is compelling at all: obviously it can regurgitate things that are nearly identical in capability to already existing code it was explicitly trained on...
It's very telling how all these examples are all "look, we made it recreate a shitter version of a thing that already exists in the training set".
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The fact it couldn't actually stick to the 16 bit ABI so it had to cheat and call out to GCC to get the system to boot says a lot.
Without enough examples to copy from (despite CPU manuals being available in the training set) the approach failed. I wonder how well it'll do when you throw it a new/imaginary instruction set/CPU architecture; I bet it'll fail in similar ways.
Honestly, probably not a lot. Not that many C compilers are compatible with all of GCC's weird features, and the ones that are, I don't think are written in Rust. Hell, even clang couldn't compile the Linux kernel until ~10 years ago. This is a very impressive project.
What Rust-based compiler is it plagiarising from?