[pypy-dev] LLVM - did we know this?

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Tue Oct 28 16:05:56 CET 2003


Hello Samuele,

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:49:41PM +0100, Samuele Pedroni wrote:
> it seems not to provide direct GC support? 

LLVM is not like a JVM or the .NET thing, it's really an assembly language
with some (optional) typing information.  You can write non-type-safe programs
in LLVM.  You can write your own memory management in LLVM too.  They don't 
impose any memory management policy.


Armin



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