[LLVMdev] Issue with paper http://llvm.org/devmtg/2008-08/Geoffray_VMKitProject.pdf and presentation http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/35/45/77/PDF/RR-6799.pdf

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Kirill Kononenko wrote:

> Hello Dear LLVM Developers and Users

Hi Kirill,

Please talk to Nicholas about this, thanks!

-Chris

>
>
> I would like to complain about scientific inaccuracy of the paper
> http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/35/45/77/PDF/RR-6799.pdf written by
> Nicolas Geoffray, Gaël Thomas, Charles Clément, Bertil Folliot, Gilles
> Muller and presentation done by Nicolas Geoffray on LLVM conference
> supported by Google:
> http://llvm.org/devmtg/2008-08/Geoffray_VMKitProject.pdf
>
> They provide comparison of their system that uses LLVM, with our
> system Portable.NET that uses LibJIT for Just-In-Time compilation.
> All measures in this paper have been done for Portable.NET 0.7.4,
> which does not use LibJIT as its engine. However, the author provides
> results of Portable.NET 0.7.4. as results of LibJIT. The Portable.NET
> 0.7.4 uses a dynamic compiler, which has nothing in common with the
> project and development of LibJIT. We are very upset with these papers
> and that there are such "researchers" in your group. Portable.NET
> 0.7.4 was released 3 years ago. LibJIT have been developed during the
> last 3 years. We require that you remove this paper and this
> presentation and make official excuses not only in this maillist but
> also on the next conferences when you talk about LLVM.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Kirill
>
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