[LLVMdev] "Name that compiler"

Jeff Cohen jeffc at jolt-lang.org
Wed Apr 11 21:53:15 PDT 2007


Chris Lattner wrote:
> As such, I'd like to open up a forum for naming ideas.  I think we need to 
> continue to use the name 'LLVM' to refer to the IR (i.e. that which is 
> described in http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html), and we should plan to 
> attach LLVM as a suffix to the project name for several years to come: For 
> example: "Use the Foo/LLVM Compiler System, it runs infinite loops faster 
> than the competition!".
>   

How about Illuvium?  It's pronounceable, it pays homage to "LLVM", and 
the domain's already taken by someone who might be persuaded to give it 
up :)




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