Star WWDC08: Apple's Other Open Secret: LLVM
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Jun 2008 19:58 UTC, submitted by Aron Allen
Mac OS X "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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RE[2]: Comment by johkra
by kaiwai on Sat 21st Jun 2008 00:06 UTC in reply to "RE: Comment by johkra"
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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.


That, and the fact that the gcc-llvm front end is going to be replaced with a new one, it'll be interesting to see what the future will be. Its great to have a compiler which is not only going to give gcc some competition but also provide a compiler which is BSD licenced.

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