Maybe we can use Mechanical Turk to get handwritten assembly code. Honestly, I'm not sure exactly how this is going to get solved, but it obviously has to get fixed – we can't be stuck on LLVM 3.3 forever, and getting Cxx and Gallium in a state where you don't have to jump through so many hoops to use them is a high priority.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Tim Holy <[email protected]> wrote: > That is astonishingly good news. What are the heroes doing behind the > scenes? > Replacing LLVM's innards with bionic components? > > --Tim > > On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 12:40:06 PM Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Uwe Fechner <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > Keno's Cxx.jl " currently requires the head version of LLVM. This is > > > fragile, but furthermore the compilation with > > > the newest version of LLVM is very slow. These are issues that are > > > currently being addressed (see: > > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9336) but probably not > fixed > > > before Julia 0.5. > > > > This will be fixed by 0.5 and may be back-ported to 0.4 as well. > >
