On Tuesday 22 November 2005 20:06, Richard Henderson wrote: > > The GVM plan could take years to get to that point... > > Could, but probably won't. I'd have actually guessed they could > have something functional, if not 100% robust, in 6 months given > 2 or 3 people on the project.
Yes. But would the memory footprint be as small as LLVM's? Your worst fears are for debug information. Mine are for the 'tree' data structures, for which, frankly, I see absolutely no easy way to make them smaller without major (or rather, Major) surgery that hurts at least as much as just moving to some entirely different IL for the optimizers. Without less heavy data structures, we're going to have such a huge memory footprint that IPA would be practically impossible for serious applications. Gr. Steven
