[LLVMdev] Google SOC - Idea

[Aaron Gray]

> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Scott Fortmann-Roe wrote:
>> Are you folks interested in this?
>> If so, please let me know ASAP and I'll put together an application.
>
> Yes!, particularly if it is in a domain that LLVM isn't known to handle
> well currently.  I'd suggest ocaml/haskell or python/ruby as
> representatives of the functional and scripting language communities.  If
> you were to do a frontend port, I'd strongly suggest starting from the
> existing compiler (e.g. the python bytecode compiler), modifying it to
> emit LLVM code.

I think PyPy already generates LLVM bytecode.

Aaron