GCC IMA & general future proposal

[Steven Bosscher]

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 21:03, Chris Lattner wrote:
> To put it another way, which has more missing features? :)  LOC isn't
> everything, as we've shown many times over.

It's not LOC.

It's 52 targets with a bunch of subtargets against a compiler that so
far can't tell the difference between a Pentium 2 and a Pentium 3.

Redoing all the backends for LLVM is a huge amount of work.  Think
about the S/390 for example, or AMD64, Itanium, etc.  Those are not
targets you just rewrite a good backend for in a matter of weeks or
months.

Gr.
Steven