[llvm-dev] Extending TableGen's 'foreach' to work with 'multiclass' and 'defm'

[Krzysztof Parzyszek via llvm-dev]

On 8/23/2017 11:58 AM, Hal Finkel via llvm-dev wrote:
> If we want to go down that route, I can certainly imagine a feasible 
> incremental-transitioning strategy. We could allow TableGen to use an 
> embedded Python interpreter to generate records based on Python data 
> structures, and then, combine records from the existing .td files with 
> those generated by the Python code. We'd use the existing TableGen 
> plugins (which we may need to continue to use regardless, compared to 
> writing Python, for performance reasons), and so we could incrementally 
> transition existing definitions from .td files to Python as appropriate.

Would we then eliminate TableGen completely in the long term?

-Krzysztof

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