[LLVMdev] API design

[Chris Lattner]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Greene wrote:
>>> This seems like the right solution to me.  Unless llvm is running on
>>> extremely limited memory embedded systems, the extra code space
>>> shouldn't be an issue.
>>
>> Code size is always an issue.
>
> To a greater or lesser degree.  Context matters.

You're right of course, let me rephrase what I meant.  These are changes 
to VMCore.  Any bloat to VMCore will affect anything that uses the LLVM 
IR.  As such, bloat can prevent LLVM from being used by various things 
that it might otherwise be suitable for.  We did quite a bit of work to 
reduce template bloat to reduce codesize for the opengl work we did, for 
example.  Code size does matter :)

-Chris

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