[LLVMdev] LLVM
Jingling Xue
jxue at cse.unsw.edu.au
Mon Feb 23 21:51:01 PST 2004
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the quick input. The harder the LLVM is,
the harder it is for me to teach the course:-)
Too many optimisations have been added, meaning
I have to design many new projects.
--- Jingling
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:41:13PM -0600, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Jingling Xue wrote:
>
> > I understand that LLVM is now available in the public domain.
>
> Yes it is. It can be downloaded from the LLVM releases page here:
> http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/
>
> > I need to decide which compiler system I will use for my advanced
> > compiler course this year.
>
> The current release is 1.1. We are tentatively planning to release 1.2
> sometime in the next month, which will include some improvements over 1.1.
> A list of the new features and changes so far can be found in the "1.2"
> release notes here: http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
>
> So which release to use depends on your timeline. If they will need to
> start before ~Mar 20, then 1.1 makes sense. If they will start after that
> time, they can use 1.2 (which will be strictly better than 1.1). If you
> decide that you want some "1.2" feature before the 1.2 release, such as
> the profiling infrastructure, you can always choose to work out of CVS.
> CVS is pretty stable most of the time.
>
> > I assume many more optimisations have been added to the system.
>
> Yup, there have been a lot of new developments. :)
>
> > Many students enjoyed working with your llvm last year.
>
> Great! BTW, if any of them have any reports that they would like to
> contribute to the "Projects built with LLVM" page, please have them send
> them to me. We'd like to showcase their hard work if they are willing to
> share. :) http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/ProjectsWithLLVM/
>
> > Thanks for the input.
>
> No problem, let me know if you still have questions.
>
> -Chris
>
>
> > ---Jingling
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:20:01PM -0600, Chris Lattner wrote:
> > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Reid Spencer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Attempting to use cvs with LLVM is producing the following:
> > > >
> > > > bash-2.05b$ cvs status
> > > > cvs [status aborted]: connect to
> > > > llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu(128.174.245.58):2401 failed: Connection refused
> > > >
> > > > I think this has happened before and the root cause was a stuck xinetd
> > > > process on the cvs server.
> > >
> > > I kicked it, try again :)
> > >
> > > -Chris
> > >
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> -Chris
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