The Upcoming Jack and Jill Compilers in Android

Re:The Upcoming Jack and Jill Compilers in Android by bobajeff on Sunday November 30, 2014 @10:35PM (#8679377)

If ART is based off of the llvm toolchain how easy would it be to create a C++ frontend for it?

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Re:The Upcoming Jack and Jill Compilers in Android by DannyBee on Monday December 01, 2014 @02:19AM (#8679883)

Contrary to the author's claim, ART is not really based on the LLVM toolchain.

It has an LLVM based backend implemented, but it is not the production one and is not used on any device.

I don't remember offhand if they have future plans for it, but at the time, it turned out to not be the best engineering option, and hasn't been touched in a while. The main compilers used are the quick one and the optimizing one.

You can see this yourself, since ART uses AOSP as it's master.

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Re:The Upcoming Jack and Jill Compilers in Android by Tloewald on Sunday November 30, 2014 @11:50PM (#8679555)

Or a native backend?

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Re:The Upcoming Jack and Jill Compilers in Android by pjmlp on Monday December 01, 2014 @03:44AM (#8680028)

ART is a native backend.

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