[LLVMdev] Summer of Code ideas

Nick Frolov nf at mkmks.org
Mon Mar 22 16:34:00 PDT 2010


> There is a high maintenance cost to having backends in the tree (every
> codegen change requires updating all backends).  Adding stuff that
> noone uses and can barely test is not goodness.

So, proposing a backend for an unpopular architecture is not a good idea
for GSoC project in general?




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