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I doubt it. Such a replacement would be a huge effort to write (including integrating it with the existing VM) and maintain, and there are also political facto
by comex 13y ago
I doubt it. Such a replacement would be a huge effort to write (including integrating it with the existing VM) and maintain, and there are also political factors. Despite those, I don't think it's out of the question that it will happen some day, especially as Chrome already has a copy of LLVM, though I do think it's less relevant than the other stuff I mentioned.
edit: azakai has a better answer :)
- ndesaulniers 13y agoSure it definitely would be a lot to implement _now_, but llvm was released roughly 5 years before v8. The v8 team totally could have chosen it for a compiler back end (code generation). My observation was simply that they didn't, and I believe there probably was a reason for it (though I can't speak to it). In hindsight, it probably would've made more sense for Google to utilize llvm as a compiler IR in v8 than as a virtual machine as in PNaCl. [1] [1] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/043719.html http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/0437...