> I think the gist behind LLVM is that compilers can target it as a > machine type, and it is able to create native binaries for its own > supported machine type for anything that can run on it. So any > compiler that can target LLVM would be able to target Plan 9. (Which > is several of them)
at what point does indirection become misdirection? but writing a compiler is a small task in comparison to dealing with the platform. (writing drivers, dealing with memory, etc). how does llvm deal with that? if it doesn't, then inferno is superior by providing a virtual platform. - erik
