LLVM is a compiler infrastructure written in C++ that is designed for compile-time, link-time, run-time, and "idle-time" optimization of programs written in arbitrary programming languages.
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Aren't there compilers better at telling the programmer what's wrong in a code?
I have worked a little while with the Microsoft compiler from Visual C++ but I worked a long time with G++, and I remember often having bad times understanding what was wrong in my code with the ...
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In what way(s) is LLVM Low Level?
In what way(s) is LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) Low Level? (At the time of writing, I did not find this expansion of the abbreviation "LLVM" on its web site, but on Wikipedia.)
Is it called "Low ...
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Is Clang/LLVM ready for prime time? [closed]
Clang is able to be used instead of gcc? What your experience on that? What disadvantages there are yet?
Performance of compilation is very better than gcc but about performance of code generated ...
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Learning YACC nowadays, does it make sense? [closed]
I have a huge project that is using YACC and I would need to fix a bug in it.
I might ask someone else who wrote that to fix it but I'm interested in how compilers work. Does it make sense to learn ...
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Reason to use mingw win32 headers and libs with LLVM/Clang
Is there any good reason (except "GCC is better") to use the MinGW win32api/headers/libs with LLVM/Clang. Suppose that in two to three years, Clang has matured enough (in C++0x and performance) that ...
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Are there any mixed stack register virtual machines?
I was reading about JVM and Android, and the technical differences between them, and one important it that one VM was stack based, and the other register based.
I studied assembler in College, & ...
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How to run C++ code in browser using asm.js?
An asm.js application is very fast (near native C++ speed): http://kripken.github.io/mloc_emscripten_talk/micro4b.png
But how is it possible to write one in C++, convert it to LLVM code, then do some ...
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Help me select a “Simpler” target to create a new language: .NET, LLVM, Go, Own VM [closed]
Lets define "Simple".
This is my first language. I have no previous experience
I will not dedicate +4 years to learn it properly. I'm a professional software [developer], but as an amateur in this ...
