Hi Caius: I was aware that MacRuby uses LLVM runtime but I believe it is still using the GCC 4.2 compiler infrastructure. LLVM claims to support Objective-C, C and C++ compilation with much better diagnostics than GCC.
Bob Rice On Sep 17, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Caius Durling wrote: > On 15 Sep 2010, at 00:00, Robert Rice wrote: > >> After viewing the introduction to Xcode 4 and LLVM, I am curious if MacRuby >> compiler could be integrated into and directly compiled by LLVM. LLVM claims >> to have much improved diagnostics and an enviable analysis phase. Is this >> idea on the MacRuby roadmap? > > > MacRuby is already using LLVM, from the homepage: "MacRuby is an > implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such > as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler > infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks." > > C > --- > Caius Durling > [email protected] > +44 (0) 7960 268 100 > http://caius.name/ > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
