[cfe-dev] Clang effort

[Chris Lattner]

On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:50 AM, A Z <asicaddress at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
>  I'm doing some basic compiler research and am trying to figure out
> roughly how much it would cost(time and/or money) to build a
> c++(c++98) front-end similar to Clang.

That's hard to say.  One estimate from ohloh.net says it took 173 person years at $9.5M:
http://www.ohloh.net/p/clang/estimated_cost

-Chris