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From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] request for more GSoC project suggestions
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On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:26 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> 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?

llvm is really a lego kit for not only compiler construction, but
also (as the name implies) VMs. Theoretically, it can do
to Plan9 what dis did to inferno. Only on a much wider set
of h/w platforms.

Thanks,
Roman.