Re:Check Widening in LLVM
by pcwalton on Sunday July 17, 2016 @01:44PM
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You could do the latter too, and that's what V8 does for example (at least until they roll out the interpreter).
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Re:Check Widening in LLVM
by sanjoy_das on Sunday July 17, 2016 @04:08PM
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Yup. The "obvious" downside to that is that you'll burn CPU cycles and memory by generating and keeping around a slow-but-correct compile for every function.