Re: [Libjit-developers] libjit vs LLVM

[Tim Jansen]

On Friday 28 May 2004 08:20, Chris Lattner wrote:
> It's not that.  The problem is that there is a limited marked for this
> kind of thing.  Open source is really bad because everyone reinvents the
> wheel.

If I interpret LLVM's license correctly, it's BSD with advertising clause and 
thus incompatible with the GPL. That would be a major obstacle for many 
people who would want to use it as a library.

> The primary advantage that libjit has over LLVM seems to be the
> availability of a C API.  

Which is quite useful if you want to run the VM in your target language and 
use libjit as the only native code. (You need an interpreter in order to 
start/bootstrap the VM though, or it would be desirable to save a native 
program like llvm does)
Another libjit advantage is that there are very few dependencies, which can be 
useful if your target platform is new.

bye..