[LLVMdev] MSIL

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Mon Dec 17 14:56:36 PST 2007


On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, [ISO-8859-2] Žiga Osolin wrote:
> I am really big fan of LLVM. I guess I could use LLVM for post-compile
> step (actually install-time step). LLVM could perform optimisations on
> my code in the following manner:
> - translate code from MSIL
> - optimize code (inlining, probably other cool optimisations)
> - translate back to MSIL
>
> Is this possible with LLVM. If not, will it ever be possible (is someone
> working on that).

Yep, this is very possible, but it's a huge amount of work.  First thing 
to start working on is an MSIL -> LLVM converter.

-Chris

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