LLVM 8.0 Released With Cascade Lake Support, Better Diagnostics, More OpenMP/OpenCL (phoronix.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @03:20AM from the it's-here dept.

After being delayed for the better part of one month, LLVM 8.0 officially is finally available. From a report: LLVM release manager Hans Wennborg announced the release a few minutes ago and summed up this half-year update to LLVM and its sub-project as: "speculative load hardening, concurrent compilation in the ORC JIT API, no longer experimental WebAssembly target, a Clang option to initialize automatic variables, improved pre-compiled header support in clang-cl, the /Zc:dllexportInlines- flag, RISC-V support in lld. And as usual, many bug fixes, optimization and diagnostics improvements, etc."

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Wondered what WebAssembly was... by SuperKendall · 2019-03-20 03:43 · Score: 2, Informative

I was curious what WebAssembly was, so I hunted down an FAQ.
Summary is that WebAssembly is a binary format to use in place of Javascript, to avoid parsing time.
Really happy to see LLVM carry on, what a great project!

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Define terms like a real tech news website by iggymanz · 2019-03-20 05:15 · Score: 4, Informative

LLVM is a set of compiler toolchain components, it is used to provide the middle tier of a compiler system for many languages. It's written in C++