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by cmrdporcupine 1312 days ago
Not C, but could probably do it with Rust & Cranelift's IR instead of LLVM's. Not as heavy weight of a dependency as bringing in LLVM.
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sillycross 1312 days ago
I just want to point out that LLVM is not a runtime dependency. It is only a build-time dependency if you want to build LJR from source. Once LJR is built, it is stand-alone and does not need LLVM at runtime.
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tekknolagi 1311 days ago
Do other JIT developers who would want to use Deegen need to pull in LLVM as a dependency still?
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JonChesterfield 1311 days ago
It should be a build time dependency. There's no JIT here, so there's no calling into LLVM's JIT, so I'd hope it's equivalent to using clang to create a native binary that implements the lua language.

Could probably retarget it to emit assembly and commit that for a loose interpretation of building from source.

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