rayiner LLVM is a couple of things. 1) It is a low-level intermediate language. It’s semantics are very similar to a stripped-down C, but it looks more like a very high-level portable assembler. 2) A compiler framework, consisting of libraries that take LLVM source files, apply very powerful SSA-based optimizations to them, and generate machine code. The benefits to GCC are two-fold: 1) It gives G

Today, Andy Tanenbaum has officially announced the release of MINIX 3.0, the third stable version of this rather legendary operating system. The launch of v3 has been accompanied by a new website and a new logo. From the new website: “MINIX 3 is a new open-source operating system designed to be highly reliable and secure. It is based somewhat on previous versions of MINIX, but is fundamentally dif