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Hopefully will replace LLVM one day.
by xvilka 8y ago
Hopefully will replace LLVM one day.
- pjmlp 8y agoIt will be an herculean effort though, given the amount of companies that contribute to LLVM.
- sunfish 8y agoFortunately, this isn't required for the project to be successful :-).
- pjmlp 8y agoDepends on how successful is going to be measured. If it is to generate code with the same optimization quality and hardware support as LLVM, not really. There are still cases where LLVM is playing catch up with GCC. I also would like to see a pure Rust compiler toolchain, but sometimes pragmatism wins.
- sunfish 8y agoIndeed, pragmatism is why we don't define success in those terms.
- mamcx 8y agoNot as "replace" but be a decent alternative, easier and less complicated?
- qznc 8y agoFaster would be the most desirable attribute in my opinion. Rust should be much faster at least for development builds and LLVM is one of the parts which slows it down.