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* libgccjit as beta?
@ 2021-01-14 22:23 Andrea Corallo
  2021-01-14 23:02 ` [committed] jit: remove "Alpha" warning from docs David Malcolm
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From: Andrea Corallo @ 2021-01-14 22:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jit; +Cc: David Malcolm, nd

Hi Dave and all,

libgccjit is still advertized as alpha state in the documentation
despite having being introduced few years ago.

I think we may want to evaluate to promote it as beta with the following
motivations:

- The API has been incerementally refined over the years since its
  introduction and it looks reasonably complete for fruition now.

- Example as the Emacs native compiler proves it can be used to create
  production software.

My main concern (the main issue we are facing) is that the alpha state
shows up as a limiting factor for certain distributions to package it
[1].  Needless to say this is also a potential limitaiton for other
software to adopt it.

WDYT?

Thanks and Regards

  Andrea

[1] <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61820>

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