[LLVMdev] MCJIT and Lazy Compilation

[Andrew Sorensen]

I apologize to everyone for the tone of this email.
I had a bad day yesterday.

I'll start having a look at how I might be able to
contribute to MCJIT.

Cheers,
Andrew.


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Andrew Sorensen <digegoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have a roadmap for MCJIT with what I think people are
> calling lazy compilation.
>
> Is this even on the cards?
>
> I spent the last few hours moving my project (extempore.moso.com.au)
> over to MCJIT (particularly for ARM), and am a little horrified to
> discover
> no ability to compile, and just as importantly to recompile, at a function
> level.
> This is absolutely mandatory for my project.
>
> I have been looking enviously at MCJIT's ARM+DWARF support for a
> couple of years and was under the misapprehension that MCJIT was
> attempting to be a *drop-in* replacement for JIT.  So I wasn't overly
> concerned about the primary JIT being largely neglected. This is obviously
> my fault, I wasn't paying close enough attention.
>
> I am now wondering what the LLVM project, in the large, plans regarding
> just-in-time compilation moving forward.  Is MCJIT the future, and
> if so what kind of roadmap is there to replicate current JIT
> functionality.
> In my case in relation to function level (re)compilation.
>
> I appreciate everyones efforts, and that we all have our own agendas.
> I'm just trying to put my own roadmap in place.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew.
>
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