On Monday 14 Jun 2010 02:30:24 Amos Shapira wrote: > There was an item on slashdot about LLVM project, have you tested it? >
LLVM is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Level_Virtual_Machine . I've learned about it from many places, including fellow developers on IRC. I've tested it with Freecell Solver back before 18-Apr-2009, according to http://fc-solve.berlios.de/docs/distro/NEWS.html . Reading from the NEWS.html file: [quote] Added Makefile.llvm to build LLVM bitcodes from the Freecell Solver sources. So far, they seem significantly slower than the native code compiled using gcc-4.3.2. [/quote] So that's it. I've used it with a binary distribution of gcc-for-LLVM instead of clang (which wasn't very mature back then). It's possible it has improved since then in this regard. In one comment I've read somewhere, it was claimed that Apple tends to hype LLVM, because that's what they support, but the fact is that gcc is much more mature and has many more years of development behind it. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
