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by noahdesu 3051 days ago
I believe that one compelling use case is to avoid the overhead of cross language boundaries (ie JNI) when the native code is compiled to bitcode and run with Sulong.
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__s 3051 days ago
Previous Graal show offs had Ruby running C extensions by implementing a Graal JIT for x86. I imagine LLVM a nicer level of abstraction to intercept at

This seems to imply only implementing a C JIT, so my memory may be wrong: http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/cext

Truffleruby seems to be using Sulong now: https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/commit/f16a52934437a96...

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jchw 3051 days ago
I wonder if that's the point. I'm not sure, I was just making guesses myself since it doesn't seem the motivation is stated.
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