GCC IMA & general future proposal

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Steven Bosscher wrote:

> 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.

Getting back to technical issues, let me point out that using LLVM to do
IPO does not require throwing away all of the RTL backends!

-Chris

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