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Sure 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 gu
by codedivine 16y ago
Sure 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).