[LLVMdev] [PATCH] Support asm comment output

[David Greene]

On Tuesday 14 July 2009 04:52, Mark Shannon wrote:
> In JIT compilers anything that slows down compilation is BAD. Plus most
> VMs already have there own debug/introspection infrastructure, so none
> is required in the machine code.

JITs don't generate asm.

> Also when translating from a very high level language to llvm, there
> tends to be a *lot* of instructions, so keeping them small is important.

Indeed.  We've encountered very large functions here with no problem.

                                -Dave