gcc-4.5.0 Success Story with Freecell Solver

[Shlomi Fish]

On Monday 14 Jun 2010 12:20:03 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 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.
> 

OK, found this comment now:

http://lwn.net/Articles/391557/

Reading from it:

[quote]
Actually they [= Apple] just refuse to touch anything GPLv3-related. And they 
often oversell LLVM because they compare it with years-old GNU stuff.

This is really sad because LLVM is great - it's just not as great as Apple PR 
guys claim...
[/quote]

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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