On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:42:07PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > That solved the block for me as it ended up removing "llvm" > > What is "llvm" actually used for? > > -- > Joost >
Some of the graphics code in mesa is written in LLVM's IR and compiled on the fly using all of the x86 extensions (SSE, AVX, etc.) that are available[1]. Alec 1. http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html
