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LLVM IR = "Low Level Virtual Machine" (originally written to be a replacement for the existing code generator in the GCC stack) "Intermediate Representation" (v
by mdda 15y ago
LLVM IR = "Low Level Virtual Machine" (originally written to be a replacement for the existing code generator in the GCC stack) "Intermediate Representation" (virtual machine language, prior to being crunched into actual machine code).
- reduxredacted 15y agoI hope I'm not the only one here upvote your comment simply because you decompressed IR into Intermediate Representation. I like to read about LLVM and some of the things that are a bit (ok, in a lot of cases, way) above what I do day-to-day, except that it's sometimes taken for granted that the readers know the acronym/reference. I read the whole article and I understood what it was referring to, but for the life of me I couldn't land on the two words because IR in my world is always infrared.
- mdda 15y agoSomewhat infuriatingly, my simple IR->"Intermediate Representation" was my highest ever scoring comment, and the one that pushed me over 500... Lesson learned : Make something people want.