FatBits: John Siracusa’s Journal: Avoiding Copland 2010: Hints of things to come?

Translated from tech-speak, he’s asking if Apple has any plans to use LLVM beyond gcc, perhaps as a more general-purpose virtual machine. Specifically, he asks whether Apple intends to distribute software using LLVM’s IR (intermediate representation) rather than native (but CPU-specific) binary code. Predictably, he received no answer.

I don’t have much else to add. I just wanted to briefly note that, yes, Apple has at least one project that involves a virtual machine. Will LLVM be used for anything beyond the gcc back-end? Right now, it’s not even certain that it’ll be used in that context

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