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authormike-m <mikem.llvm@gmail.com>2010-05-06 23:45:43 +0000
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Overhauled llvm/clang docs builds. Closes PR6613.
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-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:25:42 -0600
-From: Vikram S. Adve <vadve@cs.uiuc.edu>
-To: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
-Subject: RE: LLVM Concerns...
-
-> 1. Reference types
-> Right now, I've spec'd out the language to have a pointer type, which
-> works fine for lots of stuff... except that Java really has
-> references: constrained pointers that cannot be manipulated: added and
-> subtracted, moved, etc... Do we want to have a type like this? It
-> could be very nice for analysis (pointer always points to the start of
-> an object, etc...) and more closely matches Java semantics. The
-> pointer type would be kept for C++ like semantics. Through analysis,
-> C++ pointers could be promoted to references in the LLVM
-> representation.
-
-
-You're right, having references would be useful. Even for C++ the *static*
-compiler could generate references instead of pointers with fairly
-straightforward analysis. Let's include a reference type for now. But I'm
-also really concerned that LLVM is becoming big and complex and (perhaps)
-too high-level. After we get some initial performance results, we may have
-a clearer idea of what our goals should be and we should revisit this
-question then.
-
-> 2. Our "implicit" memory references in assembly language:
-> After thinking about it, this model has two problems:
-> A. If you do pointer analysis and realize that two stores are
-> independent and can share the same memory source object,
-
-not sure what you meant by "share the same memory source object"
-
-> there is
-> no way to represent this in either the bytecode or assembly.
-> B. When parsing assembly/bytecode, we effectively have to do a full
-> SSA generation/PHI node insertion pass to build the dependencies
-> when we don't want the "pinned" representation. This is not
-> cool.
-
-I understand the concern. But again, let's focus on the performance first
-and then look at the language design issues. E.g., it would be good to know
-how big the bytecode files are before expanding them further. I am pretty
-keen to explore the implications of LLVM for mobile devices. Both bytecode
-size and power consumption are important to consider there.
-
---Vikram
-