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Re:New Aarch64 Back End by wiz21c on Friday July 25, 2025 @04:07AM (#44680835)
maybe I'm wrong, but rust is still using LLVM. When I see that list of benefits, I wonder why rust is still on LLVM... (honest question, I use rust everyday and I'm happy with it, except for compilation times :-) )
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Re:New Aarch64 Back End by rowanG077 on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:07AM (#44681513)
Rust depends heavily on the llvm optimization pipeline afaik. So it would be a heavy investment to write native backends.
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Re:New Aarch64 Back End by zozbot234 on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:12AM (#44681537)
Rust has cranelift as a natively bootstrapped alternative these days. No different from Golang or Zig.
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Re:New Aarch64 Back End by MuffinFlavored on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:33PM (#44690818)
When will it become the default?

What does it say about LLVM project that everybody starts off on it and then gets off of it?

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