[DGD] LLVM dgd side project

[Felix A. Croes]

Carter Cheng <cartercheng at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am currently examining the possibility of modifying the current vm to run
> instead on top of the llvm infrastructure. I am curious if I happen to
> manage this whether something like this would be accepted into the main
> distribution. Basically to get this to work there are two possiblities
>
> 1) Compile directly to llvm bitcode in comp/codegen.
>
> 2) Mirror some of the existing control block structure in a volatile cache
> that gets updated when something compiles or when control blocks load from
> disk and convert the bytecode on the fly into llvm bitcode.
>
> I am not particularly partial to either solution. 2) is messier but retains
> swap file compatibility while 1) breaks it. Is there some reason I might
> prefer one to the other? How important is swapfile compatibility?

Swapfile compatibility is irrelevant, snapshot compatibility is very
important.  Option 2 is to be preferred, but if you choose option 1 to
get started, it would certainly be a useful contribution.

Regards,
Felix Croes