On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Andrew Pinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - LLVM is already producing faster code than GCC. > > No it does not. It also supports less targets than GCC does which is > the most important thing for free software really.
If it's so good, people will port it. Even the linux kernel was ported on a lots of platform... > > - LLVM code is clean enough that I can go from first looking at it to > > submitting patches in a few days, while the GCC code is indecipherable > > to anyone not already intimately familiar with it. > > This I will agree with but I will also say if LLVM was 20 years old, > then it will also have the same issue as GCC. Fair enough. But it doesn't remove this fact :) > > - LLVM has a JIT mode which will (when combined with a runtime library > > like mine - and unlike the Apple and GNU ones - which allows safe > > lookup caching) allow dynamic inlining, > > Actually JIT is the worst thing really. I hate how people think JIT > is the future, it is the past and static compiling is going to be > around for many years. JIT is a fad. I seriously doubt JIT is a fad, to the contrary. -- Nicolas Roard "Java, the best argument for Smalltalk since C++ " -- Frank Winkler _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
