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LLVM ist a mess

LLVM ist a mess

Posted Mar 17, 2024 16:03 UTC (Sun) by jem (subscriber, #24231)
In reply to: LLVM ist a mess by khim
Parent article: Cranelift code generation comes to Rust

>LLVM was originally developed as a research infrastructure to investigate dynamic compilation techniques for static and dynamic programming languages.

Note the word "originally". That was 21 years ago, and the sentence does not imply it still is nothing more than a research project. On the official LLVM web site we can read "LLVM began as a research project[...] Since then LLVM has grown to be an umbrella project consisting of a number of subprojects, many of which are being used in production by a wide variety of commercial and open source projects[...]"

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LLVM ist a mess

Posted Mar 17, 2024 16:20 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Beyond certain size it's incredibly hard to change the nature of a project. Like Windows 11, which includes certain design decisions which may be traced back to design decisions made more than half-century ago when TOPS-10 was designed many things in LLVM are still in the shape needed to be a research project.


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