LLVM IR influence on compiler debugging

Adam Wilson flyboynw at gmail.com
Sat Jul 7 20:26:56 PDT 2012


On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:33:22 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 7/7/12 8:29 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> Sure they complain, but they would complain harder if the generated code
>> was sub-optimal or had bugs in it. And I imagine that multiple hour
>> build times are more the exception than rule even in C++, my
>> understanding is that all 50mloc of Windows can compile overnight using
>> distributed compiling. Essentially, my argument is that for business
>> compilation time is something that can be attacked with money, where
>> code generation and perf bugs are not.
>
> I'm sorry, but I think you got that precisely backwards.
>
> Andrei

Why is that?

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