That's an interesting thought.
Racket currently uses GNU Lightning as its JIT, correct? What if
it used LLVM instead?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM#Description
Of course this is much more work than just getting racket to
build with Clang, but I wonder what the implications of a
successful port could be.
33 minutes ago, John Clements wrote:
>
> On Sep 10, 2011, at 6:33 PM, Will M. Farr wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Matthew! It seems to build OK now.
> >
>
> I missed the implication of this, the first time around.
>
> If I'm reading this correctly, it means that clang can compile racket, which
> is awfully close to being able to run Racket using an LLVM model such as
> emscripten, and making it run in the browser.
>
> In particular, I would expect the JIT to be totally broken, and that there
> would be a lot of painful parts related to linking to standard libraries, but
> the resulting program could actually do client-side compilation in a web
> browser, right?
>
> John
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_mike
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