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Re: optimizing

From Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: optimizing
Date 2011-08-15 18:55 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <11-08-025@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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On 2011/08/15 15:16, Volker Birk wrote:
> Hans Aberg<haberg-news@telia.com>  wrote:
>> I think that part of the reason that Apple switched to an LLVM based
>> compiler is that it can generate intermediate code that can be optimized
>> depending on what GPU is present. Perhaps it makes a switch from Intel
>> to ARM simpler.
>
> I think that all reason that Apple switches to an LLVM based compiler is
> BSD license.

There are some discussions of the technical issues here:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang#Background
   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00918.html

Hans

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