Jon Harrop wrote:> So LLVM has relatively poor support for Windows, no direct > support for DLL generation and the exact opposite of your > performance requirements.I see. This news is disappointing to me.> I appreciate that you have customer demands but those > demands are very unusual (and, frankly, absurd!) but you > must try to meet them regardless.Very unusual? Absurd? Who the what?! I feel like we are talking about completely different topics. I feel like you have just stated that sex is unpopular and very unusual. I don't see how you can possibly say it is very unusual. Everyone is doing it. You are doing it too. You are doing it and yet you are saying it is absurd. If it is absurd, why are you doing it?! It is an indisputable fact that the majority of software is fully compiled to native code files BEFORE being launched, not during. If anything is unusual, it is JIT that is unusual. JIT is the behavior in the minority -- there is no doubting that fact. JIT is the unusual one. I don't want JIT. At this very moment you are almost certainly running non-JIT programs on your computer. And yet you say that it is very unusual and absurd! What the... ?! Why is it absurd? You didn't state ANY reasons why it is absurd. There is no point in saying that something is absurd if you don't provide any reasons to support your opinion. If anything is absurd, it is JIT that is absurd. There is hardly any reason to bother with the added complexity and reduced performance of JIT -- it is simpler and easier and better performance to compile the program at some point BEFORE launching rather than DURING execution, and to store that native code on disk. OK yes in some situations JIT does make sense, but in most situations it clearly does NOT, and that is why JIT is NOT used in MOST situations. Because in most situations, using JIT would be absurd! MY GOD MAN!! For chrissakes, how can you say that sex is unpopular?!?! JIT is the one that is unusual and absurd, not sex, and there is absolutely no disputing the fact that the majority of programs are fully compiled to native code files at some point BEFORE being launched. Trying to convert the program to native code DURING execution is an absurd over-complicated unnecessary strategy except in some special situations. Sorry for being a bit repetitive but you have just stated that sex is unpopular and I don't know how else to get the message across that actually it is very popular, and how on earth can you not know this?!> Nobody here cares about providing that functionality > because nobody else wants it.If nobody wants it, then why is it so very popular and commonly used? If people don't seem to care about it, it is because they are already getting it elsewhere -- from GCC, MSVS, etc. It is like when you have lots of sex, you aren't much interested in getting more sex from others. You are not uninterested in sex because sex is unwanted, rather you are uninterested because you are already getting lots of it. Sheesh. And Jon, for your own sake, please let me assure you, I don't know what your parents or friends have been telling you, but it is very very common, and not at all unusual. Loads of people are doing it apparently without you having knowledge of it. Try it, and I think you will see why millions of people like it and don't think it absurd.
kr512 wrote: > It is an indisputable fact that the majority of software is> fully compiled to native code files BEFORE being launched, > not during. If anything is unusual, it is JIT that is > unusual. JIT is the behavior in the minority -- there is > no doubting that fact. JIT is the unusual one.Actually JIT is very usual. Many (most?) windows developers using the .NET framework compile their C++/C#/VB applications to MSIL. MSIL is then just-in-time compiled to x86 at runtime. Also, Java usually uses JIT and continues to be one of the most popular programming languages on Earth.
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 14:53:33 kr512 wrote:> I don't see how you can possibly say it is very unusual. > Everyone is doing it.Compiling to native code at installation time on the customers' machines is practically unheard of outside Gentoo Linux.> Why is it absurd?Your customers' justification was performance-based but there is no evidence indicating that these unusual requirements will actually improve performance, particularly if you use LLVM. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:53 AM, kr512 <kr512 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:> > > I appreciate that you have customer demands but those > > demands are very unusual (and, frankly, absurd!) but you > > must try to meet them regardless. > > Very unusual? Absurd? Who the what?! I feel like we are > talking about completely different topics. I feel like you > have just stated that sex is unpopular and very unusual.He is not saying static compilation is unusual or absurd, he is referring to LLVM building assemblers and linkers when there are perfectly good linkers for every platform already, and also your desire to support install-time compilation. For the former, you can easily bundle the standalone assemblers and linkers and it would be far less effort than building them. There is no compelling reason not to, as others have already pointed out. While install-time compilation is an interesting idea that I've considered before, as Jon said, it is unusual, and it would need to be done in the context of a distro like Gentoo. Otherwise, I would expect that the expense of all the optimizations would make installation far too painful for end users. As for JIT, there are many good uses for it in contexts where static compilation is simply not possible, such as mobile code. It does not reflect well on you to criticize something if you're not familiar with its uses. Finally, if you really are trying to be helpful, please avoid these lengthy digressions as they do not further the discussion. They honestly make you sound like you're trolling, hence all the negative reactions to your comments. Regards, Sandro
Tanya M. Lattner
2008-May-13 19:08 UTC
[LLVMdev] Preferring to use GCC instead of LLVM - ENOUGH
OK, this thread is getting nasty and off topic. If you continue in this manner, I will have to start banning people from the list. The LLVM mailing list is not a place for insults or attacking other people. Please, let this thread die. -Tanya On Tue, 13 May 2008, kr512 wrote:> > Jon Harrop wrote: >> So LLVM has relatively poor support for Windows, no direct >> support for DLL generation and the exact opposite of your >> performance requirements. > > I see. This news is disappointing to me. > >> I appreciate that you have customer demands but those >> demands are very unusual (and, frankly, absurd!) but you >> must try to meet them regardless. > > Very unusual? Absurd? Who the what?! I feel like we are > talking about completely different topics. I feel like you > have just stated that sex is unpopular and very unusual. > > I don't see how you can possibly say it is very unusual. > Everyone is doing it. You are doing it too. You are doing > it and yet you are saying it is absurd. If it is absurd, > why are you doing it?! > > It is an indisputable fact that the majority of software is > fully compiled to native code files BEFORE being launched, > not during. If anything is unusual, it is JIT that is > unusual. JIT is the behavior in the minority -- there is > no doubting that fact. JIT is the unusual one. > > I don't want JIT. At this very moment you are almost > certainly running non-JIT programs on your computer. And > yet you say that it is very unusual and absurd! What the... > ?! > > Why is it absurd? You didn't state ANY reasons why it is > absurd. There is no point in saying that something is > absurd if you don't provide any reasons to support your > opinion. > > If anything is absurd, it is JIT that is absurd. There is > hardly any reason to bother with the added complexity and > reduced performance of JIT -- it is simpler and easier and > better performance to compile the program at some point > BEFORE launching rather than DURING execution, and to store > that native code on disk. > > OK yes in some situations JIT does make sense, but in most > situations it clearly does NOT, and that is why JIT is NOT > used in MOST situations. Because in most situations, using > JIT would be absurd! > > MY GOD MAN!! For chrissakes, how can you say that sex is > unpopular?!?! > > JIT is the one that is unusual and absurd, not sex, and > there is absolutely no disputing the fact that the majority > of programs are fully compiled to native code files at some > point BEFORE being launched. Trying to convert the program > to native code DURING execution is an absurd > over-complicated unnecessary strategy except in some special > situations. > > Sorry for being a bit repetitive but you have just stated > that sex is unpopular and I don't know how else to get the > message across that actually it is very popular, and how on > earth can you not know this?! > >> Nobody here cares about providing that functionality >> because nobody else wants it. > > If nobody wants it, then why is it so very popular and > commonly used? If people don't seem to care about it, it is > because they are already getting it elsewhere -- from GCC, > MSVS, etc. > > It is like when you have lots of sex, you aren't much > interested in getting more sex from others. You are not > uninterested in sex because sex is unwanted, rather you are > uninterested because you are already getting lots of it. > Sheesh. > > And Jon, for your own sake, please let me assure you, I > don't know what your parents or friends have been telling > you, but it is very very common, and not at all unusual. > Loads of people are doing it apparently without you having > knowledge of it. Try it, and I think you will see why > millions of people like it and don't think it absurd. > > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev >