On 28 October 2013 18:38, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/10/13 18:48, Jacob Carlborg wrote: >> >> From what I've heard and read (mostly from WWDC videos) Apple doesn't >> feel they >> can technically do what they want with a compiler with GCC. >> >> I guess they technically can but it's too much work with the GCC code >> base. > > > It certainly seems to be true that LLVM is moving faster innovation-wise. I > don't know how much of that is down to any architectural advantages, how > much might be because they support less targets and so have a lower > maintenance burden, and how much of it is just the scale of resources being > put into it. >
I don't see it that way. Up until now at least I haven't seen anything they do that wasn't already do-able in GCC. They just do a better job at PR (which is what you expect from Apple anyway). -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
