[LLVMdev] VMKit (was Parametric polymorphism)

[Jon Harrop]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 13:39:24 Nicolas Geoffray wrote:
> Jon Harrop wrote:
> > Other people are creating far more bleeding edge VMs (e.g. VMKit) using
> > LLVM's GC API so they would be much better positioned to discuss the
> > technical aspects than I am. I would like to hear any status updates they
> > have!
>
> VMKit uses conservative GCs (Boehm or Mmap2, a GC developed in our lab),
> so we don't use the GC API.

Right.

> But we are thinking on using it some day. 

I think it would be great if there were a simple working demo but I suppose 
the best such demo would be a minimal HLVM...

What approach do you take to generics on the CLR? Also, are you gearing up for 
another release of VMKit to coincide with LLVM 2.5?

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