[LLVMdev] an OS around LLVM

mindmachine at free.fr mindmachine at free.fr
Thu Dec 19 05:42:42 PST 2013


> You might also want to go look at this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distribution_Format
>
> ...which was a pre-LLVM attempt to produce platform-independent binaries
> which got translated into native code at install time. The spec was
> kinda weird, though.
>
> Also, in a previous life I worked on an operating system known as
> intent/Elate, which was a successor to Taos, which was an operating
> system entirely based around platform-independent binaries (it could run
> on multiprocessor systems where each processor was a different
> architecture, for example). Turns out that people don't actually want to
> do that, which is why the company went bust and I now work on something
> else...

Do you mean I should give up?

Thanks for the link.



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