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What specifically about LLVM do you think makes it better than golangs compiler toolchain?
by pm90 7y ago
What specifically about LLVM do you think makes it better than golangs compiler toolchain?
- millstone 7y agoIts optimizations.
- arcticbull 7y agoNot rewriting all the assemblers, linkers and optimization passes of which decades worth of PhDs went into LLVM. It was a total and utter waste of time re-doing all that. Any work that went into buffing up 9c is never going to make it back to the community, whereas anything that goes into LLVM makes the whole world a little bit faster, immediately. And they could have started there.
- blinkingled 7y agoDitto for gccgo - it still is a thing but they had to have their own everything and make gccgo a secondary implementation that lags behind mainstream. NIH maybe.