[LLVMdev] Staged LLVM emulator

[Chris Lattner]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Patrick Meredith wrote:
> I might be able to work on that in spare time, we'll see.  Do you think 
> it's a worthwhile thing to work on?

If you're interested in working on this, you should probably talk to Chris 
Morgan, who was recently asking about the interpreter:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2005-September/004799.html

-Chris


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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Staged LLVM emulator
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> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Patrick Meredith wrote:
>> Were there ever any plans to make a staged emulator that only JIT's hot
>> functions (interpreting the lesser used ones)?  Emulators such as this
> tend
>> to perform better when there are a lot of infrequently used functions.
>
> I'm not aware of any work to implement this sort of thing, but it
> shouldn't be too hard.  We're currently lacking a decent interpreter, so
> that would be the first place to start.
>
> -Chris
>
>

-Chris

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