[LLVMdev] Compare With GNU Lightning

[Reid Spencer]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 12:42, Brian R. Gaeke wrote:

> > Just wondering if anyone con compare LLVM JIT with GNU Lightning?
> > 
> > Have we looked at GNU Lightning? While its not complete, neither is
> > LLVM's JIT. What's to stop us from integrating?
> > 
> > ... just an idle thought ..
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Funny you should ask. We looked at GNU lightning over a year ago when
> planning out how to write the JIT. I personally think that LLVM is strictly
> more powerful than GNU lightning in many ways; maybe the thing to do,
> if there are people out there actually interested in this, would be to
> reimplement GNU lightning on top of LLVM. Anyway, today, I wrote up a
> small missive comparing GNU lightning and GCC with LLVM; it's kind of
> terse, but it should give you a better feel for why we feel this way:
> 
> 	http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/LLVMVsTheWorld.html
> 
> -Brian


Thanks for that. That is EXACTLY what I was looking for.  

Reid.
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