[Mono-dev] LLVM + mac deploys

[Greg Young]

Did something like just change with this? I just asked if anyone could
do a fresh install and got

mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 3.12.1 (tarball Tue Mar 17 15:03:14 GMT 2015)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors.
www.mono-project.com
TLS:           normal
SIGSEGV:       altstack
Notification:  kqueue
Architecture:  amd64
Disabled:      none
Misc:          softdebug
LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
GC:            sgen

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com> wrote:
> Right, Mono on Mac is currently 32 bits, and we ship LLVM with it.
>
> But we do not default to LLVM, that is something that you can use when you
> pass the --llvm option.
>
> I believe we are just about to release a Mono that includes both 32 and 64
> bit binaries.
>
> Miguel
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Greg Young <gregoryyoung1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Some others are saying the xamarin package is also 32bit + llvm
>>
>> I don't have it installed here to test
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > LLVM is never the default for JIT configurations, it is something that
>> > you
>> > must manually opt-into.
>> >
>> > Did homebrew default to it?   Because LLVM as a JIT is *very slow*
>> >
>> > Miguel
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Greg Young <gregoryyoung1 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I was looking through an issue from a mac user today.
>> >>
>> >> Apparently when they brought down mono from home brew there were two
>> >> odds things.
>> >>
>> >> 1) It was 32bit. That's not really for this list though
>> >> 2) It was using LLVM by default. Is LLVM ready for being the default
>> >> at this point? I haven't been following it much.
>> >>
>> >> What is the current "best practice" for a mac user to be installing? I
>> >> run builds myself but figure there is a better way
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Greg
>> >>
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