RFR: 8171853: Remove Shark compiler

[Andrew Haley]

On 15/10/17 21:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> FWIW, there are actually quite a number of users for Zero who would be happy to
> have a JIT-version of it. One major user for Zero is MIPS (big-, little-endian,
> 32 and 64 bit) which still doesn't have a native code generator in Hotspot.

The problem with LLVM was always that its JIT interface didn't have support
for unpopular targets, thus negating its usefulness.

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Andrew Haley
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