llvm + qemu

Seems like everybody who tried to use llvm in qemu came to conlcusion that llvm should be invoked only for hot regions but noone actually tried this.

here are some llvm+qemu attempts:

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2008-April/013689.html a story about Google Summer of Code 2007.

http://code.google.com/p/llvm-qemu

http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/149975 technical report (huge performance degradation)

http://gitorious.org/qemu-async-llvm probably is a bachelor work: Using the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure for Optimised, Asynchronous Dynamic Translation in Qemu. Andrew Jeffery. 2009