> "LLVM" is officially no longer an acronym. The acronym it once expanded too was confusing, and inappropriate almost from day 1. :) As LLVM has grown to encompass other subprojects, it became even less useful and meaningless. > > In short, it is just "The LLVM Project", and LLVM doesn't stand for anything anymore. It is a nice short domain name though :)Just to make sure. Do you mean "Low Level Virtual Machine" is gone and LLVM is not an acronym for "Low Level Virtual Machine" anymore? Thanks! :) Regards, chenwj -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj
On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:05 PM, 陳韋任 wrote:>> "LLVM" is officially no longer an acronym. The acronym it once expanded too was confusing, and inappropriate almost from day 1. :) As LLVM has grown to encompass other subprojects, it became even less useful and meaningless. >> >> In short, it is just "The LLVM Project", and LLVM doesn't stand for anything anymore. It is a nice short domain name though :) > > Just to make sure. Do you mean "Low Level Virtual Machine" is gone and LLVM is > not an acronym for "Low Level Virtual Machine" anymore?Correct. -Chris
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:15:03PM -0800, Chris Lattner wrote:> > On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:05 PM, 陳韋任 wrote: > > >> "LLVM" is officially no longer an acronym. The acronym it once expanded too was confusing, and inappropriate almost from day 1. :) As LLVM has grown to encompass other subprojects, it became even less useful and meaningless. > >> > >> In short, it is just "The LLVM Project", and LLVM doesn't stand for anything anymore. It is a nice short domain name though :) > > > > Just to make sure. Do you mean "Low Level Virtual Machine" is gone and LLVM is > > not an acronym for "Low Level Virtual Machine" anymore? > > Correct.Thanks for clarification. :) -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj
The LLVM term in Wikipedia still uses the old explanation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Level_Virtual_Machine On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:> > On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:05 PM, 陳韋任 wrote: > >>> "LLVM" is officially no longer an acronym. The acronym it once expanded too was confusing, and inappropriate almost from day 1. :) As LLVM has grown to encompass other subprojects, it became even less useful and meaningless. >>> >>> In short, it is just "The LLVM Project", and LLVM doesn't stand for anything anymore. It is a nice short domain name though :) >> >> Just to make sure. Do you mean "Low Level Virtual Machine" is gone and LLVM is >> not an acronym for "Low Level Virtual Machine" anymore? > > Correct. > > -Chris >-- Jianzhou
Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> writes:>> Just to make sure. Do you mean "Low Level Virtual Machine" is gone and LLVM is >> not an acronym for "Low Level Virtual Machine" anymore? > > Correct."LLVM Lacks (a) Virtual Machine?" -Dave