LLVM Intermediate Representation
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| Original author(s) | Vikram Adve, Chris Lattner |
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| Developer(s) | LLVM Developer Group |
| Initial release | 2003 |
| Stable release |
4.0.0 / 13 March 2017
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| Repository | llvm |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Compiler |
| License | University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License |
| Website | llvm |
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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