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Overly Hyped

Overly Hyped

Posted Nov 13, 2008 22:01 UTC (Thu) by wmf (guest, #33791)
In reply to: Overly Hyped by clugstj
Parent article: Things that go Clang in the night: LLVM 2.4 released (ars technica)

> People were gushing about it being faster, smaller, other "compelling advantages". The actual facts of the matter were that what it did was a very narrow subset of the actual capabilities of GNU "ld"...

Another way to look at it is that many open source projects are being held back by support for obscure platforms with few users. Concentrating on Linux/x86 could speed development of these projects for the majority of mainstream users.

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Overly Hyped

Posted Nov 14, 2008 0:32 UTC (Fri) by SLi (subscriber, #53131) [Link]

Yet another view that I've seen in practice: While support for multiple
architectures and obscure devices sometimes are a pain, often they also
increase the quality of the code by forcing people to think about
abstractions. Good examples would be Linux and NetBSD.


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