It is, to achieve static compilation, there is no advantage to generating C code if an LLVM backend is available for the target.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:03 AM, 'Tobias Knopp' via julia-users < [email protected]> wrote: > Sounds very interesting. Are there concrete plans for which this can be > used? I thought the road towards static compilation (which you described in > the former blog post) will directly compile to binary. > > Cheers, > > Tobi > > > Am Donnerstag, 10. März 2016 22:43:18 UTC+1 schrieb Jameson: >> >> We at JuliaComputing have resurrected the LLVM CBackend project and given >> it support for Julia's IR. This lets us output C89 code as the backend from >> Julia. For more details, see our latest blog post announcing the open >> source publication of this work: >> >> http://juliacomputing.com/blog/2016/03/10/j2c-announcement.html >> >> -jameson >> >> >> *Julia Computing carried out this work under contract from the Johns >> Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) for the Federal >> Aviation Administration (FAA) to support its Airborne Collision Avoidance >> System X (ACAS X) program.* >> >
