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Hello stedolan,

Does this repo implement a multi threaded version of LLVM ?

Hi, I've read your paper on Compiler Support for Lightweight Context Switching, and I was very impressed and inspired. I'm writing a new programming language with lightweight user-space threads analogous to the ones you described, and I was also planning on using LLVM as my backend (what a coincidence!).

However, despite your work being a decade old, I don't see that LLVM ever officially adopted your swapstack or newstack additions. Is there a good reason why? Did they ever read your paper, or did you ever try to convince them to adopt your extensions? If not, do you think your extensions could easily be updated to apply to the most recent version of the LLVM codebase?

I'm very interested in applying your ideas to real-world industry situations, but I wouldn't want to use a 9-year-old version of LLVM.

Thank you for your amazing research!