Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Jun 2008 19:58 UTC, submitted by Aron Allen
"SproutCore, profiled earlier this week, isn't the only big news spill out from the top secret WWDC conference due to Apple's embrace of open source sharing. Another future technology featured by the Mac maker last week was LLVM, the Low Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure project. Like SproutCore, LLVM is neither new nor secret, but both have been hiding from attention due to a thick layer of complexity that has obscured their future potential."
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Yes, llvm is looking really promising. But seriously, statements like -"Sources report that LLVM-GCC "compiles code that consistently runs 33% faster" than code output from GCC." is obviously not true. No matter how good LLVM is there's no way it will consistently output code that is 33% faster, in reality it won't do that other than in extreme cases. Unfortunately there were no mention of what these 'sources' were.
Unlike the GNU toolchain which strains under the pressure of being the de facto compiler on which nearly the entire open source spectrum depends, llvm is a perfect testbed for new and exciting techniques in code generation. Once it matures it will provide a great alternative to the GNU toolchain and hopefully this will mean we get real competition in the oss compiler arena.