gcc-4.5.0 Success Story with Freecell Solver

[Shlomi Fish]

On Monday 14 Jun 2010 02:30:24 Amos Shapira wrote:
> There was an item on slashdot about LLVM project, have you tested it?
> 

LLVM is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Level_Virtual_Machine . I've learned 
about it from many places, including fellow developers on IRC. I've tested it 
with Freecell Solver back before 18-Apr-2009, according to 
http://fc-solve.berlios.de/docs/distro/NEWS.html . Reading from the NEWS.html 
file:

[quote]
Added Makefile.llvm to build LLVM bitcodes from the Freecell Solver sources. 
So far, they seem significantly slower than the native code compiled using 
gcc-4.3.2. 
[/quote]

So that's it. I've used it with a binary distribution of gcc-for-LLVM instead 
of clang (which wasn't very mature back then). It's possible it has improved 
since then in this regard.

In one comment I've read somewhere, it was claimed that Apple tends to hype 
LLVM, because that's what they support, but the fact is that gcc is much more 
mature and has many more years of development behind it.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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