On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Arnaud Bergeronabergeron@gmail.com wrote:
We did a partial back-end for Gambit using LLVM and were just a little bit faster for the benchmarks I tried. Although, in all cases the speed difference could well be credited to some part not being implemented properly and thus requiring less work.
I have some plans to take the implementation in another direction, to ease the expression of the various gambit back-end statements. I have not done any work on this yet. As for the code we did, it is incomplete, but I have no objection to it being posted on the dumping grounds, but I have no place to host it. I can send you the code if you are interested.
Also, the back-end we did was only for static compiling. Although once I get back in it and maybe get it to work solidly, it could be used for gsi too. Don't hold your breath for now though.
It's six months since this post. Any progress on the llvm backend?