[LLVMdev] HLVM

[Chris Lattner]

On Jan 4, 2009, at 5:36 AM, Jon Harrop wrote:

>
> What happened to the HLVM project? I understand it was intended to  
> be a
> high-level VM specifically for dynamic languages and this post  
> indicates that
> it was integrated into the LLVM project last year:
>
>  http://www.nabble.com/NEWS:-HLVM-merges-with-LLVM-td9627113.html
>
> But I cannot find any code in LLVM that looks like it would have  
> come from
> HLVM.

HLVM was checked into an llvm svn module, but it died shortly after  
that.  There are a couple of reasons: 1) the main author got busy and  
lost his time to work on it, 2) the goals of hlvm are very broad and  
poorly defined (possibly unachievable?) so no one else seems to have  
picked it up.

-Chris