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I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean why am I switching to using a compiler on my server?
It's because it's just too painful to re-write a complete compiler for the Thumb architecture - and after all that, it's not even going to be that fast. While I had something working there were lots of obscure bugs that were hard to find - and I don't think anyone else was really willing to help out with it.
By using GCC on a server I can avoid those bugs completely, debug everything more easily, and also get really fast code out the end.
However if someone could make a C->Thumb compiler that could run in JavaScript (like a port of TCC) then I'd be happy to switch back to offline compilation.