LLVM Weekly - #94, Oct 19th 2015

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A good time was had by all at ORConf last week at CERN. We had over 100 open source hardware enthusiasts join us in Geneva. You can find my slides updating on lowRISC here. Videos should appear on youtube in the next week or so.

News and articles from around the web

A six month retrospective of LLILC, the project to produce an open source LLVM-based compiler for .NET, has been posted. It describes work still to be done for garbage collection and exception handling, code size and code quality, and JIT throughput.

The schedule for the 2015 LLVM Developers' Meeting is now available.

The new ELF linker in LLD is looking pretty fast. Right now it can link Clang in about half the time of binutils gold. However, the resulting binary is larger. It will be interesting to see how the performance compares when both are at feature parity, but this is looking promising.

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