>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Lattner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> In this role, it provides a static optimizer, interprocedural link- Chris> time optimizer, JIT support, and several other features. I'm quite interested in the JIT aspect of LLVM, for gcj. This would fill one of our major missing gaps. However, it seems to me that for this to work well in practice, it would mean that the code generators would have to be under a "runtime friendly" license -- that is, GPL would probably not be appropriate. This leads into somewhat ugly territory ... either requiring a "pure LLVM" back end for JIT support, or relicensing RTL back ends to something else. Chris> The IR supports several features that are useful to various Chris> communities, including true tail calls, accurate garbage collection, Chris> etc. Us gcj hackers would also like accurate GC support. Java is fairly dynamic, as I'm sure you know. So, I'm much more interested in the JITting possibilities than in link time optimizations; the latter is cool and probably useful to embedded users of gcj, but I'd imagine for all our recent binary compatibility deployments we would just end up ignoring it. Tom
