Plans to move to LLVM 6.0?

Phil_Tomson · March 9, 2018, 3:50am

Now that LLVM 6.0 is released, are there plans to move Julia to LLVM 6.0?

shorty66 · March 9, 2018, 10:44am

There is this PR: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/26229

kristoffer.carlsson · March 9, 2018, 10:57am

Upgrading LLVM typically comes with a lot of additional work in tracking down performance regressions (compile-time and runtime). It is unlikely the cost benefit is in favor of upgrading LLVM for Julia 1.0 but after that, I am quite sure that LLVM will be upgraded quite quickly.

Edit: See link in post below for perhaps more up to date info.

jtravs · March 9, 2018, 9:13pm

Looks like this might actually happen pre 0.7/1.0: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/26398