[llvm-commits] [www] r126111 - /www/trunk/index.html

[Vikram Adve]

Author: vadve
Date: Sun Feb 20 23:09:19 2011
New Revision: 126111

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=126111&view=rev
Log:
Clarifying the research goals of LLVM.  We can still do a better
job of this.

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    traditional virtual machines, though it does provide helpful libraries that 
    can be <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org">used to build them</a>.</p>
 
-<p>From its humble beginnings as a research project at
-   the <a href="http://cs.illinois.edu/">University of Illinois</a>, LLVM has
+<p>LLVM began as a research project at
+   the <a href="http://cs.illinois.edu/">University of Illinois</a>, with
+   the goal of providing a modern, SSA-based compilation strategy capable
+   of supporting both static and dynamic compilation of arbitrary
+   programming languages.  Since then, LLVM has
    grown to be an umbrella project consisting of a number of different
    subprojects, many of which are being used in production by a wide variety of
    <a href="Users.html">commercial and open source</a> projects