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With all the flak Apple has taken over dropping its commitment to one "-VM," the JVM, I'd just like to point out Apple is the primary corporate sponsor of LLVM
by alanh 16y ago
With all the flak Apple has taken over dropping its commitment to one "-VM," the JVM, I'd just like to point out Apple is the primary corporate sponsor of LLVM (I understand). How many plates must they keep in the air? This one is flying pretty high.
- wash 16y agoI'm a 19 year old college student, actually. I have no affiliation with Apple, nor a formal relation with Clang or LLVM.
- alanh 16y agoSorry, but your HN bio is empty and you didn't submit the article. Did you spearhead the effort? And is my comment regarding Apple and Clang incorrect? Thanks!
- vibhavs 16y agoI'm not sure why he was downvoted. He appears to the author of the linked email. You can see at the bottom of the mail, he signed of as "Bryce Lelbach aka wash".
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- codedivine 16y agoSure Apple is one of the bigger sponsors of LLVM but LLVM started out as an academic project and even now lots of academics contribute to it. Apple hired the guy who originally wrote LLVM and now uses it a lot. But many other companies also utilize LLVM and contribute back to it (though not as heavily). For example, some AMD compiler folks I know said they were going to commit some changes to LLVM (not sure if they did). Adobe also uses it AFAIK for some specific tools. However, LLVM and JVM dont have much in common. JVM is popular more for its baked in libraries than its instruction set or VM efficiency (though HotSpot is a darned good VM too).