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Re: GCC + libJIT instead of LLVM
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- To: Kirill dot Kononenko at gmail dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:24:58 -0400
- Subject: Re: GCC + libJIT instead of LLVM
- References: <b21f6d8e0904010225s47aff98cr31a2e1f47c35addc@mail.gmail.com> <b21f6d8e0904010233u19a4a927rf6e951b1e98df940@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Kirill Kononenko
<kirill.kononenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Dear GCC Developers,
>
>
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> I would like to ask your opinion about possibility for integration of
> the libJIT Just-In-Time compilation library and GCC. For example, the
> same way as libffi is integrated within gcc source tree. It seems to
> me that LLVM solves many goals that are already complete and solved in
> GCC. So I think libJIT potentially is more useful for GCC and software
> developers.
>
Highly disagree.
>
> What is your opinion about this idea? How this should be done and what
> improvements could be made to both libJIT and GCC for this kind of
> integration?
I don't think we should integrate libJIT into GCC. It doesn't solve
any of the *interesting* JIT problems we would have, it only solves
the ones we know how to solve in a fairly short time (given enough
developers).