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0 pointsjbarham6y ago0 comments

> Right, you need to specifically throw money and people at the problem of making LLVM faster

I repeat, Apple is the major sponsor of LLVM and is sitting on ~$250 billion in cash. If LLVM could be made significantly faster by simply throwing money at it, presumably this has also occurred to Apple management. I can't believe they're not doing it because it doesn't align with their marketing pitch.

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hollerith6y ago

Apple embraced LLVM because Apple's lawyers are scared of version 3 of the GPL and consequently of GCC, and they need something to compile Objective C.

That is different from a belief that making LLVM better is worth management's attention or a slice of Apple's budget once it proved a satisfactory replacement for GCC.

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hollerith6y ago

Apple embraced LLVM because Apple's lawyers are scared of version 3 of the GPL and consequently of GCC, and they need something to compile Objective C.

That is different from a belief that making LLVM better is worth management's attention or a slice of Apple's budget once it proved a satisfactory replacement for GCC.

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