Tuesday 22 October 2019

Revealing the inner power of LLVM


Dear folks,

Here a little important fact in the LLVM history is occurring ... Finally the move from SVN to Git is ongoing ! That sounds very little, but being fully in git rather than using git -> svn conversion tool (or still using svn repo on the side) will be more convenient, I think, as a committer. Appreciated !

Speaking on LLVM, I still try to push in the OpenMP "side of things", here porting simply to OpenBSD, planning DragonflyBSD for next. Hopefully, should be merged after the migration ...



Apart of this, the work been put into libuv had paid off and as a result the 1.33.1 version had been released since few days and being used into NodeJS master branch already, fixing some issues with lesser supported platforms from Haiku (always appreciated supporting this unique OS) to OpenBSD.
At least, I had the opportunity to visit the Facebook's HQ in Dublin, they were presenting their internal (but open sourced) technologies (Folly) and was intrigued why they would not just use the "almighty" Boost ensemble and the standard C++ library. It is mainly for high performance reason , somehow with the incoming C++20 features, it might become a bit less relevant, but their reasoning made sense. The video might be available on Youtube at some point for the curious. "Et voila" :-) for now the radare team is preparing the awaited 4.0.0 branch which is a major step forward, I myself dive into WebKit a little and other little things in the meantime. Until then, I wish you well !

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