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From: Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com>
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Subject: Re: optimizing
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:55:20 +0200
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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