On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:26 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
On Wed Mar 25 19:22:23 EDT 2009, devon.od...@gmail.com wrote:
Another student I spoke to on IRC spoke of the possibility of
bootstrapping LLVM for Plan 9 on Linux and getting it to run
natively.
That would give us a whole bunch of different compilers.
--dho
at the risk of being called stupid twice in one day, i have to say
i don't see what the payoff would be. doing something with
gcc helps with gcc-specific code. what does llvm give us?
llvm is really a lego kit for not only compiler construction, but
also (as the name implies) VMs. Theoretically, it can do
to Plan9 what dis did to inferno. Only on a much wider set
of h/w platforms.
Thanks,
Roman.
