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November 08, 2005

LLVM 1.6 Released

Posted: 2005-11-08 21:08:00
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LLVM 1.6 has been released. LLVM is a compiler infrastructure designed for the optimization of programs written in various programming languages.

This release includes: support for JITing multithreaded code, optimization improvements, major improvements to the Alpha backend, a new DAG Combiner backend component, improved varargs support, Itanium- and PowerPC-related improvements, support for building with GCC 4.x, plus numerous other changes and bugfixes.