Introduction of Alhambra project

[Andrew Haley]

On 14/07/2020 17:37, Roman Kennke wrote:
> 3. I am not sure what the status of JIT support in LLVM is. Might be
> worth to investigate. Back in the day, Shark used the 'regular' LLVM
> compiler, because JIT support was basically limited to x86. Maybe this
> has improved since then.

As far as I know it's now plenty good enough: Azul has a proprietary
product based on the LLVM JIT, I have been told.

> Also, try to keep it under the JVMCI interfaces. If those are not
> sufficient, we shall work to make them a better fit. Better to keep it
> sane from the start.

JVMCI is rather designed to fit Graal, so it's in flux. I'm not sure
that JVMCI is suitable for LLVM.

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