{OT} Youtube Video: newCTFE: Starting to write the x86 JIT

Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Apr 24 10:18:38 PDT 2017


On Monday, 24 April 2017 at 14:41:44 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Monday, 24 April 2017 at 12:59:55 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>>
>> Have you considered using the LLVM jit compiler for CTFE? We 
>> already have an LLVM front end. This would mean that CTFE 
>> would depend on LLVM, which is a large dependency, but it 
>> would create very fast, optimized code for CTFE on any 
>> platform.
>>
>
> I can't help but laugh at this after the above posts...

I totally missed when Stefan said:

> Also and perhaps more importantly I am sick and tired of 
> hearing "why don't you use ldc/llvm?" all the time...

That is pretty hilarious :)  I suppose I just demonstrated the 
reason he is attempting to create an x86 jitter so he will have 
an interface that could be extended to something like LLVM.  Wow.



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