[LLVMdev] Re: Kudos

[Vikram Adve]

I'm tempted to say Thanks, but in fact, the credit for this goes to 
Chris's design.  He's built a system that really makes it easy to do 
interesting projects in a short time, and to avoid common problems with 
the many safety nets in the core representation.  I think the extremely 
small IR plays a part too.

Some day, we should add a "User Testimonials" page and include a quote 
or two like this, anonymously, or with attribution, and with permission 
of course!  Would you mind if we quoted you?

--Vikram
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve
http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/

On Nov 20, 2003, at 4:02 AM, Reid Spencer wrote:

> My hat is off to everyone that's worked on LLVM.
>
> I started coding Stacker yesterday from scratch as a background task 
> in between doing "real" :) work. Tonight I got my first program 
> generated by the Stacker compiler to compile, link and execute. The 
> entire control flow of Stacker is done (mind you its trivial). All 
> that remains is to fill in code generation for about 60 built-in 
> words.
>
> I'm shocked. 8 Hours work? Is compiler writing supposed to be this 
> easy?
>
> Kudos. LLVM Rocks.
>
> Reid