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why ask this question on an article about python possibly moving to LLVM? Rubinius and MacRuby target LLVM as well, for example.
by llimllib 17y ago
why ask this question on an article about python possibly moving to LLVM? Rubinius and MacRuby target LLVM as well, for example.
- ori_b 17y agoLLVM isn't so much a VM for those languages to use directly as a portable assembly toolkit. It's too low level to do compile to directly. It'd occupy a place in the stack somewhere near assembly, but with an optimizer in place. It's more of a VM toolkit than a VM itself.