When EOL? Replacing GCJ by IcedTea, GCC by LLVM.

When EOL? Replacing GCJ by IcedTea, GCC by LLVM.

[J.C. Pizarro]

For performance and simplicity, i show this summary

1. "The LLVM Compiler System" by Chris Lattner
http://llvm.org/pubs/2007-03-12-BossaLLVMIntro.html
http://llvm.org/pubs/2007-03-12-BossaLLVMIntro.pdf

2. "LLVM in OpenGL and for Dynamic Languages" by Chris Lattner
http://llvm.org/devmtg/2007-05/10-Lattner-OpenGL.pdf
http://llvm.org/devmtg/2007-05/10-Lattner-OpenGL.mov
http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2007/05/mesa-and-llvm.html

3. "Vector LLVA: A Virtual Vector Instruction Set for Media Processing"
by Bocchino and Vikram
http://llvm.org/pubs/2006-06-15-VEE-VectorLLVA.html
http://llvm.org/pubs/2006-06-15-VEE-VectorLLVA.pdf

Re: When EOL? Replacing GCJ by IcedTea, GCC by LLVM.

[Chris Lattner]

On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:08 PM, J.C. Pizarro wrote:

> For performance and simplicity, i show this summary

JC, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I don't think that this is the  
right forum for discussions about LLVM vs GCC.  If you'd like to  
discuss LLVM, please take it to an LLVM-related mailing list.

GCC has a long life ahead of it, and LLVM is certainly not going to  
cause cessation of GCC development.  The two projects have very  
different goals - even though people like to focus on areas where the  
goals overlap, there are large areas where either project is far more  
suitable than the other.

This is not the right forum for proselyting LLVM vs GCC.  That said,  
anyone interested in LLVM is very welcome to contribute to it, just  
please discuss it on an llvm list.

Thanks!

-Chris

Re: When EOL? Replacing GCJ by IcedTea, GCC by LLVM.

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"J.C. Pizarro" <jcpiza@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Stop developing new features to GCJ
> and start to develop the more advanced IcedTea (a.k.a. OpenJDK).
> 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki//Main_Page
> 
> 
> 2. Stop developing new features to GCC's backend
> and start to develop the more advanced LLVM-GCC.
> 
> http://llvm.org/   (Low Level Virtual Machine)
> http://hlvm.org/   (High Level Virtual Machine)
> 
> 
> The GCJ compiler could be dead so soon possible.
> The GCC backend could be dead so soon possible.
> 
> There will be dates for its EOLs (End-Of-Life s).

There have always been more advanced compilers than gcc.  Yet gcc
survives.  Why is that?

gcc will die someday.  But it is to early to predict when that will
happen.

Ian

When EOL? Replacing GCJ by IcedTea, GCC by LLVM.

[J.C. Pizarro]

1. Stop developing new features to GCJ
and start to develop the more advanced IcedTea (a.k.a. OpenJDK).

http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki//Main_Page


2. Stop developing new features to GCC's backend
and start to develop the more advanced LLVM-GCC.

http://llvm.org/   (Low Level Virtual Machine)
http://hlvm.org/   (High Level Virtual Machine)


The GCJ compiler could be dead so soon possible.
The GCC backend could be dead so soon possible.

There will be dates for its EOLs (End-Of-Life s).