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Re:Gollvm from Google by pcwalton on Saturday May 27, 2017 @05:01PM (#14431963)
LLVM has better support for moving GC, due to Azul's efforts. That's a big difference.
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Re:Gollvm from Google by kibwen on Saturday May 27, 2017 @10:32PM (#14432875)
Doesn't gccgo reuse the standard Go runtime, and wouldn't integrating LLVM'S GC support require pretty much writing a brand-new runtime?
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Re:Gollvm from Google by pcwalton on Sunday May 28, 2017 @03:50AM (#14433487)
LLVM doesn't come with a garbage collector; it comes with hooks you can plug your GC into. So it'd require a good bit of work to integrate with LLVM's GC support, but nowhere near rewriting the whole runtime.
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