[LLVMdev] Thinking about "whacky" backends

[Joachim Durchholz]

Am 01.06.2011 23:25, schrieb Nate Fries:
> That said, it seems like it ought to be possible to do the same thing
> by emitting bitcode for all supported platform/arch combinations

Wait... is bitcode not platform-agnostic?
I thought it is.

 > and
> compressing them in an archive,  then decompressing and either
> interpreting or JIT-compiling the appropriate bitcode for the
> platform. This would just be a more flexible means to that same end.

Not sure how that is more flexible - care to elaborate?

Regards,
Jo