Hi All,

I came across this thread on Slashdot today:

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/17/1451239&from=rss

and read this comment about LLVM:

"If you're interested in advanced compiler technology, check out LLVM
[llvm.org], which is an ground up redesign of an optimizer and
retargettable code generator. LLVM supports interprocedural cross-file
optimizations, can be used for jit compilation (or not, at your
choice) and has many other capabilities. The LLVM optimizer/code
generator can already beat the performance of GCC compiled code in
many cases, sometimes substantially.

For front-ends, LLVM supports two major ones for C family of
languages: 1) llvm-gcc, which uses the GCC front-end to compile
C/C++/ObjC code. This gives LLVM full compatibility with a broad range
of crazy GNU extensions as well as full support for C++ and ObjC. 2)
clang [llvm.org], which is a ground-up rewrite of a C/ObjC frontend
(C++ will come later) that provides many advantages over GCC,
including dramatically faster compilation and better warning/error
information.

While LLVM is technologically ahead of both PCC and GCC, the biggest
thing it has going is both size of community and the commercial
contributors [llvm.org] that are sponsoring work on the project."

I had not heard of this before but am curious.  Has anyone tried this
on any project of theirs or had any other experience with it?

Thanks,
steven

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