Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 18th Aug 2006 05:37 UTC, submitted by Hakime
Mac OS X Apple announced that they are using the LLVM optimizer and JIT within their Mac OS 10.5 'Leopard' OpenGL stack. LLVM will help in delivering better performance of the GL stack.
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by kaiwai on Fri 18th Aug 2006 08:57 UTC
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Just wondering about LLVM and compiling an operating system like FreeBSD using it; does it work? does it yield 'nicer' code that performs better? OpenSolaris is gradually being ported so that the GNU GCC can compile it, has anyone tried compiling it with LLVM/GCC$?