[Mono-dev] minimal mono embedding profile - hpc twist

[sebastian]

Is it possible to use the LLVM garbage collector in the long run, or does
it work at an unsuitable level for mono?

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Zoltan Varga <vargaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>> A more general question to the Mono team, does the mono-llvm fork pull in
>> new functionality from the LLVM project from time to time?  Should we
>> expect to be able to take advantage of the new optimisations (for example
>> the deeper vectorization work in progress) when they become available?    I
>> recall that there were a number of deficiencies with the LLVM that required
>> a lot of scaffolding in order to interoperate with the mono runtime.
>> Curious whether the LLVM foks have thought to address these so that could
>> make more direct use of core LLVM in the future?
>>
>> Yes, we do rebase our changes on top of LLVM HEAD from time to time.
> About our changes, most of them are mono specific, and won't help LLVM very
> much. for the others, it would require a lot of time to transform them into
> a format suitable for inclusion into LLVM proper, so we didn't do that. As
> for the LLVM deficiencies, most of them are solved/worked around in our
> changes, so for example, LLVM can compile about 95% of mscorlib methods on
> x86.
>
>                     Zoltan
>
>


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*Sebastian Good*
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