November 2017
Beginner
316 pages
6h 40m
English
The LLVM project was started as a research project at the University of Illinois. Its aim was to create modern, Static Single Assignment (SSA)-based compilation strategies and type safety, low-level operations, flexibility, and the capability of representing all high-level languages cleanly. It is actually a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. LLVM doesn't have to do much with traditional virtual machines. Some of the objectives of LLVM are:
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