In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > > Actually, I wouldn't have any interest working on a compiler using llvm > > as a backend because it leaves only the boring front end work :) Not to > > mention the maintainance problems when depending on an external cg > > written not in pascal, the probably significant speed drop etc. > > I've already thought whether I should write that you are one who is at > most against LLVM as a backend (though I do mostly agree with you), but > then I thought that I leave it just as general as I wrote it ^^
I've my doubts too. Not so much that I crave backend work (since I don't work on the compiler), but from a release engineering viewpoint. The external codebases and -versioning are always the problem. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
