Re: [Mono-dev] LLVM Expectations

2009-12-26 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, > 1) Is the LLVM back-end intended to be a long term solution to code > optimization for performance sensitive code in mono? So far it looks very promising, and if things continue to evolve nicely in this direction, it would make sense. > 3) Would success with the LLVM back-end necessari

Re: [Mono-dev] LLVM Expectations

2009-12-26 Thread Alan McGovern
Hey, 1) Is the LLVM back-end intended to be a long term solution to code > optimization for performance sensitive code in mono? > > 2) How confident are you that the issues described can be resolved without > kludge? > > 3) Would success with the LLVM back-end necessarily curtail efforts to > impr

[Mono-dev] LLVM Expectations

2009-12-26 Thread Kamujin
I have compiled mono with the LLVM back-end and run some tests. Clearly there remains work to be done, but there were some cases where I obtained executions speeds equal to an equivalent optimized C version. This is really exciting for someone like me. It is my belief / understanding that mono's