On 2020-Oct-15, Andres Freund wrote: > There will be a breaking API change for JIT related API in LLVM > 12. Mostly about making control over various aspects easier, and then > building on top of that providing new features (like JIT compiling in > the background and making it easier to share JIT compiled output between > processes). > > I've worked with Lang Hames to ensure that the new C API has feature > parity...
Whee, sounds pretty good ... (am I dreaming too much if I hope execution starts with non-jitted and switches on the fly to jitted once background compilation finishes?) > 2) When do we want to add LLVM 12 support? PG will soon stop compiling > against LLVM 12, which will be released in about 6 months. I worked > with Lang to make most of the breaking changes in a branch (to be > merged in the next few days), but it's possible that there will be a > few smaller changes. hmm, how regular are LLVM releases? I mean, what if pg14 ends up being released sooner than LLVM12 – would there be a problem?