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Distributions looking at LLVM

Posted Mar 22, 2012 10:43 UTC (Thu) by danieldk (guest, #27876)
In reply to: Distributions looking at LLVM by boudewijn
Parent article: Distributions looking at LLVM

Cool! Let me ask a naive question: does this also mean that e.g. OpenShiva + LLVM can generate different code on the fly if the user has an appropriate GPU available for computation?


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Distributions looking at LLVM

Posted Mar 22, 2012 11:47 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Not a really naive question -- it's not possible yet, but that's just because the relevant backend hasn't been written. There's no built-in limitation, except that we haven't had time! We sort of feel that this would be a perfect project for an advanced student working on thesis :-).

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