On 23/08/2013, at 3:52 AM, Ryan Newton wrote:

> Well, what's the long term plan?  Is the LLVM backend going to become the 
> only backend at some point?

I wouldn't argue against ditching the NCG entirely. It's hard to justify fixing 
NCG performance problems when fixing them won't make the NCG faster than LLVM, 
and everyone uses LLVM anyway.

We're going to need more and more SIMD support when processors supporting the 
Larrabee New Instructions (LRBni) appear on people's desks. At that time there 
still won't be a good enough reason to implement those instructions in the NCG.

Ben.


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