[llvm-dev] Need help with code generation

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-dev]

On Mar 22, 2016 8:03 AM, "James Molloy" <james at jamesmolloy.co.uk> wrote:
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> Rafael,
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> I appreciate that your goals are to create a performant linker, quickly.
I understand that and wouldn't want to slow you down unnecessarily,
especially as I appreciate that I'm on the sidelines and not producing
patches for LLD at the moment.
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> I also appreciate that LLD/ELF development has certainly picked up pace
recently and we might actually have a functioning linker sometime soon.
That is very exciting, and thankyou for all your work.
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> My worry is that the technical debt accrued will have to be paid off by
someone at some point. At some point, someone will have to come along and
make LLD robust ("enough", for some definition), and the current decision
will make that person's job much harder.

Again: users *today* are less likely to see a crash in lld than llvm or
clang and those are much larger code bases.

Cheers,
Rafael
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