[LLVMdev] mcjit

Jim Grosbach grosbach at apple.com
Wed Jul 11 09:14:02 PDT 2012


On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:04 AM, Benjamin Kramer wrote:

> 
> On 11.07.2012, at 14:39, Reed Kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
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>> Does anyone know which projects rely on mcjit?
>> 
>> There is the oldjit too; it's still being used?
> 
> The most prominent user of the MC JIT is probably LLDB.
> 
> The only issue with MCJIT I know of is the lack of windows support, and I expect oldjit to go away once that is sorted out. Switching between the JIT implementations is really trivial and transparent, if you don't have to support windows it's worth a try.
> 

MCJIT also doesn't yet support lazy compilation. That's not a big problem to add; it's just not been necessary for anyone yet.

-Jim



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