Re:LLVM 13.0
by jabl on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:49PM
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> Intel, ARM, IBM, Sony, Nintendo will have to jump in.
Intel and IBM have recently announced their own proprietary LLVM-based compilers, but they seem more interested in backend work to make their own CPU's look good [1] than spending resources on frontend work. I guess that applies to ARM as well.
Sony and Nintendo are, I guess, mostly satisfied? They just want a decently good compiler and toolchain ecosystem, but for games most performance comes from the GPU anyway, chasing low-single-digit performance increases for CPU code doesn't seems like a super good investment opportunity for a game console company.
Intel and IBM have recently announced their own proprietary LLVM-based compilers, but they seem more interested in backend work to make their own CPU's look good [1] than spending resources on frontend work. I guess that applies to ARM as well.
Sony and Nintendo are, I guess, mostly satisfied? They just want a decently good compiler and toolchain ecosystem, but for games most performance comes from the GPU anyway, chasing low-single-digit performance increases for CPU code doesn't seems like a super good investment opportunity for a game console company.