[llvm-dev] LLVM Orc Weekly #28 -- ORC Runtime Prototype update

Geoff Levner via llvm-dev
Tue, 19 Jan 2021 23:04:17 -0000

We always compile and execute in the same process, so I don't imagine that
would make any difference to us...?

Geoff

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 11:08 PM Lang Hames <lhames at gmail.com> wrote:

> Big question for JIT clients: Does anyone have any objection to APIs in
> ORC *relying* on the runtime being loaded in the target? If so, now is the
> time to let me know. :)
>
> I think possible objections are JIT'd program startup time (unlikely to
be
> very high, and likely fixable via careful runtime design and pre-linking of
> parts of the runtime), and difficulties building compiler-rt (which sounds
> like something we should fix in compiler-rt).
>
> If we can assume that the runtime is loadable then we can significantly
> simplify the TargetProcess library, and TargetProcessControl API, and
> further accelerate feature development in LLVM 13.
>
> -- Lang.
>
>
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