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ocaml, llvm and generating code at runtime

Joel Reymont
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  - Jon Harrop
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        Yoann Padioleau
        
        Jon Harrop
- Jon Harrop

Date:	2010-01-01 (22:52)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] ocaml, llvm and generating code at runtime

On Friday 01 January 2010 22:33:42 Yoann Padioleau wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > I think it was a big mistake for the Go developers at Google and the
> > Mono developers at Novell to not build upon LLVM.
> >
> > My main concern about other JITs is maturity: AFAIK LLVM has orders of
> > magnitude more users that all of the others combined.
>
> And ?

That maturity gives me confidence in LLVM's reliability and on-going 
development.

> C has many orders of magnitude more users than ocaml ...

Indeed.

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