[LLVMdev] Fwd: bitcode / bytecode

Bill Wendling wendling at apple.com
Wed Sep 29 15:12:52 PDT 2010


Chris rewrote the original LLVM bytecode into it's present bitcode form. The newer code is much smaller than the previous form. That would be my guess for why he chose to call it bitcode. Of course, he can say for himself. :-)

-bw

On Sep 29, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Ariel Feinerman wrote:

> Anyone,
> 
> can you say what was the reason to rename bytecode? I am still interesting in
> 
> 2010/9/29 Duncan Sands <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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