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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/20/apples_other_open_secret_the_llvm_complier.html


The left hand does not know what the right is doing ?
Banning all script usuage on iphone makes no sense.

[perkiset]

There's never been scripting except for JS in iOS.

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@perks
LLVM is a virtual machine, similar to .net and java VM, except it does not suck 

Main selling point is a lot easier to move applications to new platforms.
Also you can make various languages which target the VM.

It they made an OS on top of LLVM, and opened it up, apple would be miles ahead.

[isthisthingon]

Hmmm... I wonder why Apple is so silent on these things??   

Introducing GCC

The first acronym in our alphabet soup is GCC, originally the GNU C Compiler. This project began in the mid 80s by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation. Stallman's radical idea was to develop software that would be shared rather than sold, with the intent of delivering code that anyone could use provided that anything they contribute to it would be passed along in a form others could also use.

Stallman was working to develop a free version of AT&T's Unix, which had already become the standard operating system in academia. He started at the core: in order to develop anything in the C language, one would need a C compiler to convert that high level, portable C source code into machine language object code suited to run on a particular processor architecture.

GCC has progressed through a series of advancements over the years to become the standard compiler for GNU Linux, BSD Unix, Mac OS X, and a variety of embedded operating systems. GCC supports a wide variety of processor architecture targets and high level language sources.

Apple uses a specialized version of GCC 4.0 and 4.2 in Leopard's Xcode 3.1 that supports compiling Objective-C/C/C++ code to both PowerPC and Intel targets on the desktop and uses GCC 4.0 to target ARM development on the iPhone.