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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:26:22 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] request for more GSoC project suggestions
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On Wed Mar 25 19:22:23 EDT 2009, devon.odell@gmail.com wrote:
> Another student I spoke to on IRC spoke of the possibility of
> bootstrapping LLVM for Plan 9 on Linux and getting it to run natively.
> That would give us a whole bunch of different compilers.
>
> --dho

at the risk of being called stupid twice in one day, i have to say
i don't see what the payoff would be.   doing something with
gcc helps with gcc-specific code.  what does llvm give us?

- erik