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Re:Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua by andrewmcwatters on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @12:02PM (#10656926)
Why would you use Terra to write a JIT? It uses LLVM. To write JIT in JIT?
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Re:Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua by haberman on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @01:03PM (#10657433)
Think of it as a programming environment for generating LLVM IR that is a lot more convenient than using LLVM's C++ API.
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Re:Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua by coldtea on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @05:02PM (#10659207)
Sort of like people use Java to write JVM languages?
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