[LLVMdev] "Name that compiler"

Jeff Cohen
Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:53:15 -0000

Chris Lattner wrote:
> As such, I'd like to open up a forum for naming ideas.  I think we need
to
> continue to use the name 'LLVM' to refer to the IR (i.e. that which
is
> described in http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html), and we should plan to
> attach LLVM as a suffix to the project name for several years to come: For
> example: "Use the Foo/LLVM Compiler System, it runs infinite loops
faster
> than the competition!".
>

How about Illuvium?  It's pronounceable, it pays homage to "LLVM",
and
the domain's already taken by someone who might be persuaded to give it
up :)