[gambit-list] scheme on llvm

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy pclouds at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 00:39:38 EDT 2009


On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Arnaud Bergeron<abergeron at 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?
-- 
Duy



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