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Re:Gollvm from Google by meadori on Saturday May 27, 2017 @01:54PM (#14431088)
I am somewhat confused by this. The LLVM project already has an official Go frontend that lowers to LLVM IR:

* https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llgo/trunk/README.TXT

Re:Gollvm from Google by Mayzie on Sunday May 28, 2017 @08:49AM (#14434184)
:-(

> You attempted to reach llvm.org, but the server presented a certificate signed using a weak signature algorithm (such as SHA-1). This means that the security credentials the server presented could have been forged, and the server may not be the server you expected (you may be communicating with an attacker).

Re:Gollvm from Google by tbezman on Saturday May 27, 2017 @02:04PM (#14431133)
Does Google think they can do a better job?
Re:Gollvm from Google by meadori on Saturday May 27, 2017 @02:34PM (#14431256)
I don't really know, but I would be suprised if that is the intent of the project because:

  1. The maintainer of llgo is a Google employee (and a very talented LLVM engineer).

  2. I don't imagine there would be tremendous differences in the strategies used to generate LLVM IR between the tools.  ISTM, if there are deficiencies in llgo, then it would be better to fix them rather than creating a whole new tool.
Re:Gollvm from Google by Stratoscope on Saturday May 27, 2017 @02:45PM (#14431312)
If you take advantage of the two-hour edit window and remove the spaces in front of 1 and 2, it will be easier to read, especially on mobile:

1. The maintainer of llgo is a Google employee (and a very talented LLVM engineer).

2. I don't imagine there would be tremendous differences in the strategies used to generate LLVM IR between the tools. ISTM, if there are deficiencies in llgo, then it would be better to fix them rather than creating a whole new tool.