On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 16:34:40 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 16:22:51 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
Wasn't LLVM supposed to solve that, being a "virtual machine"
for compilation to low level native code?
May still be possible, Apple just announced that the default
format to submit apps for iOS will be bitcode from now on,
which people are speculating is some form of llvm bitcode:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/app-thinning-will-be-a-major-boon-for-8gb-and-16gb-iphones-and-ipads/
Apple will then compile the bitcode for you on their servers,
before sending the final binary to users.
Apple is catching up with Microsoft on Windows 8.x/10 here.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and-Peter-Sollich-Inside-Compiler-in-the-Cloud-and-MDIL
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-NET-Native
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Paulo
