[LLVMdev] Fwd: bitcode / bytecode

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Bill Wendling wrote:

> 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. :-)

The format is literally a bitstream, not a bytestream.  See this document for more details:
http://llvm.org/docs/BitCodeFormat.html

-Chris