Re: WIP: Faster Expression Processing and Tuple Deforming (including JIT)

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> * The sheer mass of the dependency.  What's the installed footprint of
>> LLVM, versus a Postgres server?  How hard is it to install from source?
>
> Worked for me first try, but I'm perhaps not the best person to judge.
> It does take a while to compile though (~20min on my laptop).

Presumably this is going to need to be something that a user can get
via yum install <blah> or apt-get install <blah> on common systems.

I wonder how feasible it would be to make this a run-time dependency
rather than a compile option.  That's probably overcomplicating
things, but...

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