[LLVMdev] [RFC] WebAssembly Backend

[Ronan KERYELL]

>>>>> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:57:26 -0700, Dan Gohman <dan433584 at gmail.com> said:

    Dan> Yes, it is likely someone will have this desire at some
    Dan> point. Such an effort would be an entirely separate project
    Dan> from this WebAssembly backend project though. To put things in
    Dan> perspective though, WebAssembly is lower-level than LLVM
    Dan> IR. Round-tripping from LLVM IR down to WebAssembly and back to
    Dan> LLVM IR would be lossy.

This looks like déjà vu with the current discussion on SPIR-V in another
thread. :-)

At some point any virtual IR (pick yours: SPIR, SPIR-V, PTX, AIR,
HSA...) could benefit from having some generic support for this in
LLVM...
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  Ronan KERYELL