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An interesting analysis, thanks! I hadn't realized there was an actual attempt at merging GCC and LLVM. What did happen when it was attempted? Are there mailing
by rwallace 14y ago
An interesting analysis, thanks! I hadn't realized there was an actual attempt at merging GCC and LLVM. What did happen when it was attempted? Are there mailing list posts or suchlike from the time, that would clarify things?
- DannyBee 14y agoI can't even remember what year it was, but if you start searching the gcc and gcc-patches mailing lists for emails from Chris Lattner, you can find a proposal was made. Google may be able to find it easier. A lot of discussion of this proposal happened offline. The end result was basically that Chris withdrew it (though not formally), though GCC would have rejected it anyway. GCC was mostly unwilling to throw away what they had (nobody was really up for rewriting everything again), and Chris realized it would be a disaster to his community. Imagine trying to unify the stereotypes of the ruby and python communities, or something like that (i use this only as an example of the level of difference in ideologies between the GCC and LLVM communities) In practice, this was probably the right social outcome given the set of developers/people involved on both sides. From a pure technical perspective, it's much harder to say.
- rwallace 14y agoAh, thanks, found it. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html