[llvm-commits] [llvm] r115112 - /llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

[Michael Spencer]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Chris Lattner <sabre at nondot.org> wrote:
> Author: lattner
> Date: Wed Sep 29 19:34:43 2010
> New Revision: 115112
>
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=115112&view=rev
> Log:
> add a bunch of entries for external projects.
>
>
> Modified:
>    llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
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> Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html?rev=115112&r1=115111&r2=115112&view=diff
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> --- llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html (original)
> +++ llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Wed Sep 29 19:34:43 2010
> @@ -162,7 +162,8 @@
>    future</a>!).  The tool is very good at finding bugs that occur on specific
>    paths through code, such as on error conditions.</p>
>
> -<p>In the LLVM 2.8 time-frame,
> +<p>The LLVM 2.8 release fixes a number of bugs and slightly improves precision
> +   over 2.7, but there are no major new features in the release.
>  </p>
>
>  </div>
> @@ -317,6 +318,124 @@
>    projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 2.8.</p>
>  </div>
>
> +<!--=========================================================================-->
> +<div class="doc_subsection">
> +<a name="tce">TTA-based Codesign Environment (TCE)</a>
> +</div>
> +
> +<div class="doc_text">
> +<p>
> +<a href="http://tce.cs.tut.fi/">TCE</a> is a toolset for designing
> +application-specific processors (ASP) based on the Transport triggered
> +architecture (TTA). The toolset provides a complete co-design flow from C/C++
> +programs down to synthesizable VHDL and parallel program binaries. Processor
> +customization points include the register files, function units, supported
> +operations, and the interconnection network.</p>
> +
> +<p>TCE uses llvm-gcc/Clang and LLVM for C/C++ language support, target
> +independent optimizations and also for parts of code generation. It generates
> +new LLVM-based code generators "on the fly" for the designed TTA processors and
> +loads them in to the compiler backend as runtime libraries to avoid per-target
> +recompilation of larger parts of the compiler chain.</p>
> +
> +</div>
> +
> +<!--=========================================================================-->
> +<div class="doc_subsection">
> +<a name="Horizon">Horizon Bytecode Compiler</a>
> +</div>
> +
> +<div class="doc_text">
> +<p>
> +<a href="http://www.quokforge.org/projects/horizon">Horizon</a> is a bytecode
> +language and compiler written on top of LLVM, intended for producing
> +single-address-space managed code operating systems that
> +run faster than the equivalent multiple-address-space C systems.
> +More in-depth blurb is available on <a
> +href="http://www.quokforge.org/projects/horizon/wiki/Wiki">the wiki</a>.</p>
> +
> +</div>
> +
> +<!--=========================================================================-->
> +<div class="doc_subsection">
> +<a name="clamav">Clam AntiVirus</a>
> +</div>
> +
> +<div class="doc_text">
> +<p>
> +<a href=http://www.clamav.net>Clam AntiVirus</a> is an open source (GPL)
> +anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail
> +gateways.  Since version 0.96 it has <a
> +href="http://vrt-sourcefire.blogspot.com/2010/09/introduction-to-clamavs-low-level.html">bytecode
> +signatures</a> that allow writing detections for complex malware. It
> +uses LLVM's JIT to speed up the execution of bytecode on
> +X86,X86-64,PPC32/64, falling back to its own interpreter otherwise.
> +The git version was updated to work with LLVM 2.8
> +</p>
> +
> +<p>The <a
> +href="http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-bytecode-compiler.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/user/clambc-user.pdf">
> +ClamAV bytecode compiler</a> uses Clang and LLVM to compile a C-like
> +language, insert runtime checks, and generate ClamAV bytecode.</p>
> +
> +</div>
> +
> +<!--=========================================================================-->
> +<div class="doc_subsection">
> +<a name="pure">Pure</a>
> +</div>
> +
> +<div class="doc_text">
> +<p>
> +<a href="http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/">Pure</a>
> +is an algebraic/functional
> +programming language based on term rewriting. Programs are collections
> +of equations which are used to evaluate expressions in a symbolic
> +fashion. Pure offers dynamic typing, eager and lazy evaluation, lexical
> +closures, a hygienic macro system (also based on term rewriting),
> +built-in list and matrix support (including list and matrix
> +comprehensions) and an easy-to-use C interface. The interpreter uses
> +LLVM as a backend to JIT-compile Pure programs to fast native code.</p>
> +
> +<p>Pure versions 0.44 and later have been tested and are known to work with
> +LLVM 2.8 (and continue to work with older LLVM releases >= 2.5).</p>
> +
> +</div>
> +
> +<!--=========================================================================-->
> +<div class="doc_subsection">
> +<a name="GHC">Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC)</a>
> +</div>
> +
> +<div class="doc_text">
> +<p>
> +<a href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/">GHC</a> is an open source,
> +state-of-the-art programming suite for
> +Haskell, a standard lazy functional programming language. It includes
> +an optimizing static compiler generating good code for a variety of
> +platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
> +development.</p>
> +
> +<p>In addition to the existing C and native code generators, GHC 7.0 now
> +supports an <a
> +href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/Backends/LLVM">LLVM
> +code generator</a>. GHC supports LLVM 2.7 and later.</p>
> +
> +</div>
> +
> +<!--=========================================================================-->
> +<div class="doc_subsection">
> +<a name="Clay">Clay Programming Language</a>
> +</div>
> +
> +<div class="doc_text">
> +<p>
> +<a href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/">Clay</a> is a new systems programming

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- Michael Spencer

> +language that is specifically designed for generic programming. It makes
> +generic programming very concise thanks to whole program type propagation. It
> +uses LLVM as its backend.</p>
> +
> +</div>
>
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