LLVM 2.6 released

Version 2.6 of the LLVM compiler is out. There's a lot of new stuff here, including much-improved x86-64 code generation, link-time optimization support, a number of new architectures supported, DragonEgg (using LLVM for GCC code generation), and more. "A major highlight of the LLVM 2.6 release is the first public release of the Clang compiler, which is now considered to be production quality for C and Objective-C code on X86 targets. Clang produces much better error and warning messages than GCC and can compile Objective-C code 3x faster than GCC 4.2, among other major features."

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