[LLVMdev] VLIW code generation for LLVM backend

[Sergei Larin]

But we are really striving to change it fast :)

Dan, 

  My comparative point was that LLVM has a greater potential to accommodate
VLIW going forward than GCC does at this point.
Would you agree to that?

Sergei

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Gohman [mailto:gohman at apple.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:30 PM
> To: Sergei Larin
> Cc: 'Triple Yang'; llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] VLIW code generation for LLVM backend
> 
> 
> On Aug 9, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Sergei Larin <slarin at codeaurora.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Yang,
> >
> >  This might not be such a tough choice on engineering side - one of
> > the LLVM differentiators is the ground-up, early introduced support
> > for VLIW specific features.
> 
> Actually, LLVM lacked support for VLIW until fairly recently, and it
> has relatively few VLIW-specific features.
> 
> Dan