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Eclipse OMR™ Cross platform components for building reliable, high performance language runtimes
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Investigate GNU Octave as a potential OMR adopter #2287

Open 0xdaryl opened 6 years ago

0xdaryl commented 6 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12406849

We really need help with JIT compiling. We have a toy LLVM implementation, but it uses the unstable LLVM API and we gave up trying to patch it up with every LLVM release. It is now a white elephant that we allowed to starve to death. The problem we have is that the kind of people who are attracted to contribute to numerical computing are very different from the kind of people who know compilers and programming languages.

Anything would be better, whether fixing and extending the LLVM implementation, or picking any other free JIT compiling backend. Ideally, because we like to help each other out in GNU, we would use libgccjit (David Malcolm used Octave as the original inspiration for libgccjit), but this is not a requirement.

StEvUgnIn commented 3 years ago

Did you contact him?

Contact me at jordigh@octave.org