2009/4/1 Dave Korn <dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com>: >> LLVM is an overkill for JIT compilation. I think the tasks which LLVM >> solves are already solved within GCC transformations, or can be >> integrated very easily with libJIT. LibJIT is also much easier in >> usage, for ordinary developers. So what I see here, LLVM is rather a >> competitor to GCC, considering which tasks it solves. And complexity >> of code rises inproportionally to the task it is used for. While both >> could be potentionaly useful for their area of expertise. I think an >> GCC+libJIT solves 99% of areas of LLVM usage. > > From this, it sounds to me as if the question you should be asking is not so > much "Could integrating libjit be useful for GCC", but more like "Could > integrating GCC be useful for libjit"!
LibJIT is a not a competitor to LLVM. Three guys on internet don't compete with a multi-billion corporation like Apple (?) But you are correct. LibJIT is only a tool for JITing, and it already does this job much better than any other tool. LibJIT can benefit even more from integration with GCC internals. Thanks, Kirill
