Has anyone been working on using [LLVM][1] to do just-in-time code generation for the [Erlang][2] virtual machine?<\/p>\n
Depending on the design and structure of the Erlang virtual machine, it doesn’t seem like it would be all that tough a project. And it could provide a nice performance boost for those projects that are starting to use Erlang like [CouchDB][3] and [ejabberd][4].<\/p>\n
For an example of what I’m talking about, there’s a project called [VMKit][5] that has implemented the Java and .NET virtual machines atop LLVM with reasonable performance. Essentially, if you have a virtual machine, rather than skipping either just-in-time or static code generation entirely, or trying to do it all yourself for some specific platform on which you want to run, take a look at what you can do with LLVM and see if you can leverage its code generation instead.<\/p>\n
[1]: http:\/\/llvm.org\/
\n [2]: http:\/\/erlang.org\/
\n [3]: http:\/\/couchdb.org\/
\n [4]: http:\/\/www.ejabberd.im\/
\n [5]: http:\/\/www.ejabberd.im\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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