Re: [Chicken-users] LLVM

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> On 7/30/06, Ryan Cleven <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Has anyone looked at porting chicken to a front end for LLVM?
>
> An interesting idea. AFAIK LLVM does semantically pretty much
> provide everything C (gcc) provides. Whether it really is worth
> the effort is another thing, of course. For example, how much
> performance is to be gained. One approach to test this might be
> to take a small benchmark, and hand-translate the chicken
> output to LLVM.

That's more work than actually supporting LLVM, if it is indeed a GCC 
lookalike.  If it looks like GCC, then it should be trivial to get it to 
work, and it only remains for the interested party to try it.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every