Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 18th Aug 2006 05:37 UTC, submitted by Hakime
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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Member since:2005-08-08
Both the Mac Mini and MacBook use iNTELS own GFX chips, and they will do that for quite some time I'm guessing. iNTEL will keep on releaseing integated graphics which will be perfect (cost wise) to put in the low-end macs and "fixing" the software so the graphics runs faster on these machines will be a god send for Apple.
Besides, maybe this is just the first step when it comes to LLVM, maybe it will improve other things down the line. Heck, it could improve even more things with Leopard that we don't know of.
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2005-12-23
This is probably good only for intel integrated graphics (and software renderer). I think, other cards from ATI and NVIDIA have TCL or vertex shaders and will not use this.