[LLVMdev] Old JIT Status (i.e., can we delete it?)

[Benjamin Kramer]

On 24.11.2012, at 02:18, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Writing some patches for MC I noticed that the old (non MC) JIT still
> has a lot of duplicated code for producing EH frames which makes it a
> bit harder to refactor code used by both implementations.
> 
> Given that MCJIT is making good progress and that we just branched
> 3.2, can we delete the old JIT or at least its EH support? The
> attached patch removes just the EH bits.

The last major roadblock is lazy compilation. I don't think we can remove the old JIT until MCJIT supports that.

- Ben