Toward distributions of native libraries

[John Rose]

On Jan 12, 2019, at 7:42 PM, Samuel Audet <samuel.audet at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for the feedback! If it were a priority, and if it were me, I would start by ensuring that the high-level API can also be optimized in the case of AOT, but this isn't happening at the moment. I just shortened it this way because I consider AOT to be just as important as JIT. How do you feel I should phrase this then? That it isn't a priority /only in the case of AOT/? I'll edit it that way if that's accurate! If not, I would welcome additional explanations, for example, see https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/885 . Thanks

Performance is important, period.  The discussion on #885 peters out with you saying, "but can it work efficiently?".  That's a complicated question, to which I believe the answer is almost certainly "yes".  We are, fact, planning to make such things "work efficiently", and "such things" include JIT, AOT, and SVM compilation of Panama apps.

So I agree with Maurizio's comment, that this bit of your blog post (a very good one!) would better reflect our intentions by omitting the comment about performance.  If you wish, you could satisfy our observations by saying something straightforward like "Although the Panama people claim to value high performance, I don't think they can achieve it, especially for AOT."  If that's true for you, in which case, wait and see how it all turns out.

To put it in a nutshell:  You misrepresent our priorities (a set of mental states Maurizio and I can and do authoritatively explain) by reasoning about their feasibility (which reasonable people can disagree about).

— John