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LLVM

LLVM
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Original author(s) Vikram Adve, Chris Lattner
Developer(s) LLVM Developer Group
Initial release 2003; 14 years ago (2003)
Stable release
3.9 / 2 September 2016; 6 months ago (2016-09-02)
Repository llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/
Written in C++
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Compiler
License University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
Website llvm.org

The LLVM compiler infrastructure project (formerly Low Level Virtual Machine) is a "collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies" used to develop compiler front ends and back ends.

LLVM is written in C++ and is designed for compile-time, link-time, run-time, and "idle-time" optimization of programs written in arbitrary programming languages. Originally implemented for C and C++, the language-agnostic design of LLVM has since spawned a wide variety of front ends: languages with compilers that use LLVM include ActionScript, Ada, C#,Common Lisp, Crystal, D, Delphi, Fortran, OpenGL Shading Language, Halide, Haskell, Java bytecode, Julia, Lua, Objective-C, Pony,Python, R, Ruby, Rust, CUDA, Scala, and Swift.


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