Has anyone looked at LLVM lately? http://llvm.org/
It seems to be making a lot of progress lately with the support of Apple (which is using LLVM for its own purposes in Mac OS X). Is there anything there Parrot can steal? Would it make sense for Parrot to target LLVM bytecode and let LLVM do further optimization and native code generation? There's also the predictably named HLVM: http://hlvm.org/ which looks vaguely Parrot-ish. Check out the comparison chart: http://hlvm.org/docs/FAQ.html Anyway, I'm just thinking out loud, here. Sorry if it's all old news to the Parrot dev gurus. -John
