[LLVMdev] [Fwd: Fwd: LLVM and threading]

[Nicolas Geoffray]

>From what I know:

1) Static compilation is not thread safe. For example, the LLVM type
tables are not thread safe.
2) The JIT is mostly thread safe. There are however some improvements to
do with dynamic method patching.

Nicolas

John Criswell wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Here's a question Vikram and I received.  Is the LLVM JIT thread safe?
>
> -- John T.
>
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> Subject:
> Fwd: LLVM and threading
> From:
> "Adve, Vikram Sadanand" <vadve at uiuc.edu>
> Date:
> Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:48:59 -0500
> To:
> "Lenharth, Andrew David" <alenhar2 at uiuc.edu>
>
> To:
> "Lenharth, Andrew David" <alenhar2 at uiuc.edu>
> CC:
> John Criswell <criswell at cs.uiuc.edu>
>
>
> Do you guys know if the LLVM JIT is thread-safe?  Are there other
> parts that are not?  Thanks,
>
> --Vikram
> http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve
> http://llvm.org
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Mark Oskin <oskin at cs.washington.edu>
>> Date: November 1, 2007 8:57:45 AM CDT
>> To: Vikram Adve <vadve at cs.uiuc.edu>
>> Subject: LLVM and threading
>>
>> Hi Vikram-
>>
>> I've been digging through the LLVM stuff but I can't quite find a
>> quick answer to this, so thought I'd ask.  Does LLVM support threads?
>> Has anyone done this already experimentally?  Would it work if I
>> didn't need the JIT, just targeted native x86?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> -Mark Oskin
>>
>>     
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