[LLVMdev] bitcode / bytecode

[Duncan Sands]

Hi Ariel,

> can you say what was the reason to rename bytecode? I am still interesting in

you forgot to send this to the mailing list, so I have (probably someone there
knows better than I).  I think the reason is that bitcode is bit-packed, i.e.
you can have multiple pieces of information stored in one byte, so byte code
was a misnomer.

Ciao,

Duncan.

>
> 2010/9/29 Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr <mailto:baldrick at free.fr>>
>
>     Hi Ariel,
>
>      > As long as I know English the word "bit" is a "small pice", . Why in set of
>      > documentation ir is "bytecode", in other set or llvm source is "bitecode"?
>      > What is the right? Different people call the same thing such differently.
>
>     it used to be called bytecode, now it is called bitcode, but not all
>     documents were updated it seems.
>
>     Ciao,
>
>     Duncan.
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> Ariel