Re:Google Details PNaCl Native Client LLVM Bitcode
by exDM69 on Thursday August 01, 2013 @07:04AM
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> To be completely fair, PNaCl is part of Chromium, and hence an open source project from the start. The code is freely available for anyone to see, check out and build, and has always been.
I think the most important thing here is not the code, but rather the refinements to LLVM IR bitcode to make it more portable. Most of LLVM IR is already CPU/platform agnostic but parts of it are closely tied to the target architecture (which makes sense since LLVM IR was originally targeted at compilers).
A standard portable subset of LLVM IR would be very welcome.
I think the most important thing here is not the code, but rather the refinements to LLVM IR bitcode to make it more portable. Most of LLVM IR is already CPU/platform agnostic but parts of it are closely tied to the target architecture (which makes sense since LLVM IR was originally targeted at compilers).
A standard portable subset of LLVM IR would be very welcome.