Jon Harrop wrote:

> Because benchmarks like my HLVM ones have proven that LLVM can generate
> *much* faster code than ocamlopt does.

Until ocamlopt has an LLVM backend that is not a fair comparison.

I suspect that the speed differences between your HLVM and ocamlopt
have very little to do with LLVM and are almost totally due to 
other factors.

> LLVM is also much better documented than ocamlopt's internals.

LLVM has well over 20 full time programmers working on it. The
Ocaml compiler has how many?

Erik
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