Re: [Mesa3d-dev] codegen again

[Allen A. <ak...@po...>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:40:03AM -0600, Keith Whitwell wrote:
| For those interested, take a look at the GNU lightning project.

There's some good work there.

I'm a little worried by the lack of an instruction scheduler.  That
may not be a big deal for lightning's intended purpose, but I'd guess
it would be more important in some applications for Mesa.

Also, my personal bias would be to use an input representation that's
more abstract than MIPS-like virtual-machine instructions.  That makes
it easier to optimize the output code if you like, and needn't have a
huge impact on compilation time if optimization is turned off.  I
acknowledge this can become a tarpit, though.

Allen