[LLVMdev] bitcode vs native code

[Owen Anderson]

On Dec 14, 2013, at 5:25 AM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:

> On 12/14/2013 04:06 AM, sebald.ziegler.maillist at ikolus.de wrote:
>> On Friday, December 13, 2013 23:15:45 reed kotler wrote:
>>> Has anyone done any comparisons of bitcode vs native code (.o) in terms
>>> of size?
>>> 
>>> TIA.
>>> 
>>> Reed
>>> 
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>> maybe
>> http://llvm.org/pubs/2003-10-01-LLVA.ps -> page 10
>> is what you are looking for.
> 
> Just what the doctor ordered.
> 
> Awesome paper.

Note that that paper is very old in LLVM terms.  2003 pre-dates the modern bitcode format.  Prior to LLVM 2.0, we used a different binary format called bytecode instead.

—Owen
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