[LLVMdev] The name of LLVM

[陳韋任]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:15:03PM -0800, Chris Lattner wrote:
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> On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:05 PM, 陳韋任 wrote:
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> >> "LLVM" is officially no longer an acronym.  The acronym it once expanded too was confusing, and inappropriate almost from day 1.  :)  As LLVM has grown to encompass other subprojects, it became even less useful and meaningless.
> >> 
> >> In short, it is just "The LLVM Project", and LLVM doesn't stand for anything anymore.  It is a nice short domain name though :)
> > 
> >  Just to make sure. Do you mean "Low Level Virtual Machine" is gone and LLVM is
> > not an acronym for "Low Level Virtual Machine" anymore?
> 
> Correct.

  Thanks for clarification. :)

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