ALLVM: Forthcoming Project to Ship All Software As LLVM IR

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ALLVM: Forthcoming Project to Ship All Software As LLVM IR

Interest is growing around shipping software as LLVM IR and will be discussed at this year's LLVM Developers' Meeting...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-IR-ALLVM

[cj.wijtmans]

Awesome we have InfraRed computers now. How much faster is it than electronics?

[nazar-pc]

IR stands for Intermediate Representation, not InfraRed

[johanb]

This is a pretty cool idea. Write in any language you want and let the end user choose if they want to compile it, interpret it or interpret it with with a JIT compiler.

EDIT: Architecture independence is also a pretty sweet.

[cj.wijtmans]

IR stands for Intermediate Representation, not InfraRed

That was sarcasm.

[arabek]

This project has "we are the new java bytecode" written on it's forehead.

[bitman]

I am not convinced. How is ti an improvement if compiling and linking happens on everyone's machines instead of one developer machine? I see it as mostly wasted electricity. The only thing that could be great is deploying multiplatform software with single executable, but it would require some clever engineering to handle all that platform-dependent mess so it is in no way easy.

[cj.wijtmans]

I am not convinced. How is ti an improvement if compiling and linking happens on everyone's machines instead of one developer machine? I see it as mostly wasted electricity. The only thing that could be great is deploying multiplatform software with single executable, but it would require some clever engineering to handle all that platform-dependent mess so it is in no way easy.

Because you can do link-time-optimizations. Meaning you optimize natively to your microcode.

[Kushan]

I am not convinced. How is ti an improvement if compiling and linking happens on everyone's machines instead of one developer machine? I see it as mostly wasted electricity. The only thing that could be great is deploying multiplatform software with single executable, but it would require some clever engineering to handle all that platform-dependent mess so it is in no way easy.

The concept behind the idea is nothing new - Java, MSIL, etc. but using LLVM's IR, you can use any language you want, you're not constrained to Java, C# or whatever.

[cj.wijtmans]

This project has "we are the new java bytecode" written on it's forehead.

Kind-of but kind-of not.