I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck

Re:I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck by davidw on Monday August 30, 2010 @10:22AM (#1646235)

> You assume that a person cannot gain something by simply learning something that has no practical purpose

Actually, what I wrote, if you'd bother to read it, is: "Yeah, he learned something for sure, but that's pretty much all it can be." so don't put words into my mouth.

The point boils down to this:

* It'll probably never become big.

* That doesn't really matter, it's mostly for learning and for fun.

* But even so, why preclude that? <- this is all that is causing people to get their knickers in a knot over what I wrote.

> You're assuming that every thing that people work on actually needs the potential to become "big".

If you get that essentially for free, then why the hell not?

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Re:I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck by pohl on Monday August 30, 2010 @12:05PM (#1646570)

The effort you've expended to debate this will soon meet & then exceed the effort that went into the tracing JIT in question. When you reach that point, you'll have some soul searching to do.

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Re:I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck by davidw on Monday August 30, 2010 @01:16PM (#1646819)

You'd be annoyed too if people continued to misconstrue what you were saying in order to attack a strawman.

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