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   Hans Aberg to Volker Birk   
   Re: optimizing   
   15 Aug 11 18:55:20   
   
   From: haberg-news@telia.com   
      
   On 2011/08/15 15:16, Volker Birk wrote:   
   > Hans Aberg  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   
      
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