On Oct 18, 2021, at 19:11, John Mellor <john.mel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On 2021-10-18 6:12 p.m., Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 14:50 -0400, John Mellor wrote:
>>> Llvm is a compiler suite, and has nothing to do with VMs. This does
>>> not make sense on multiple levels.
>>>
>>> I was about to say the same thing, but:
>>>
>>> $ dnf info llvm
>>> ...
>>> Summary : The Low Level Virtual Machine
>
> Hmmm. Interesting. I'm not sure why llvm describes itself as a "Low Level
> Virtual Machine", when it has nothing to do with that. Does the llvm team
> seem to think that machine language is virtual or something equally weird?
> It sounds like llvm needs to fix what the package description says. Its a
> compiler suite and an associated runtime lib, and that's all.
The first paragraph on llvm.org:
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain
technologies. Despite its name, LLVM has little to do with traditional virtual
machines. The name "LLVM" itself is not an acronym; it is the full name of the
project.
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Jonathan Billings
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