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I doubt this is very relevant in the case of Chrome compilers. It's more about the huge investment/expertise in Clang- or LLVM-based dynamic analysis and develo

by slrz 9y ago

I doubt this is very relevant in the case of Chrome compilers. It's more about the huge investment/expertise in Clang- or LLVM-based dynamic analysis and development tooling. It's just the better platform for writing these things. Heck, this is what is was built for in the first place. GCC is a solid, but also a very traditional compiler.

saurik 9y ago
> Heck, this is what is was built for in the first place. LLVM was supposed to be a virtual machine environment (hence the name); I remember when it came out and I was in college doing program language research. It entirely dropped that history and got twisted into a compiler platform much later. And clang only came into existence because the developers of g c (in particular, Richard Stallman) did not want to work with Apple on maintaining LLVM as a gdc backend (which was a stupid stupid decision: Apple said they would be willing to give the copyright of LLVM to the FSF, which would have kept all compiler tech under GPL), which was all well after Apple had been switching to LLVM for their compiler stack (in order to obtain weird optimizations).