Hi, Just a word of warning - i am (was) very much planning to do some of these tasks pre-sprint. Not sure I can make the sprint anyhow.
A 4th larger task also is to make gc and stackless work. A 5th task is to take pbcs work again! ;-) I'll be on irc over the weekend - right now i need some sleep. Cheers, Richard On Jun 23, 2007, at 1:25 AM, Armin Rigo wrote: > Hi Anton, > > (CC'ing to pypy-dev) > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:59:12PM +0400, Anton Korobeynikov wrote: >>> - support for LLVM 2.0 for the llvm backend >> Is there any detailed information, how the sprint will touch this >> topic? > > I don't have many details, but there are three subtasks regarding > LLVM: > on the one hand, we did a small addition to the translation toolchain > that is not yet supported by our backend generating LLVM code, so the > first subtask is this "maintenance" task, which should be not too much > efforts if done while pairing with someone that knows already a bit > about the backend. Then, there is the idea of changing the LLVM > assembler produced - at the moment, it's for LLVM 1.9, but we want to > move to 2.0. I can't tell how much effort this is, as I'm not enough > into LLVM or the LLVM backend. The third, longer-term task that we > may > not start during the sprint would be to refactor and clean up the LLVM > backend and the C backend, so that they can share code a bit more > naturally (at the moment the LLVM backend fishes for internal routines > of the C backend). > > > A bientot, > > Armin. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
