[LLVMdev] Thinking about "whacky" backends

[Joachim Durchholz]

Am 01.06.2011 04:57, schrieb Cameron Zwarich:
> What benefit do you get from having a backend here rather than an interpreter for LLVM IR?

A backend that's self-sufficient and covers the entire Unixoid world.
That cuts down on the number of binaries that one needs to provide for 
autoinstallers and such.

Generated Perl could be used to bootstrap an LLVM IR interpreter, for 
example.

Regards,
Jo