Add some codegen related terminology to glossary #56
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I would appreciate some confirmation on these definitions. |
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| local crate | the crate currently being compiled. | ||
| LTO | Link-Time Optimizations. A set of optimizations offered by LLVM that occur just before the final binary is linked. These include optmizations like removing functions that are never used in the final program, for example. _ThinLTO_ is a variant of LTO that aims to be a bit more scalable and efficient, but possibly sacrifices some optimizations. You may also read issues in the Rust repo about "FatLTO", which is the loving nickname given to non-Thin LTO. LLVM documentation: [here][lto] and [here][thinlto] | ||
| [LLVM] | (actually not an acronym :P) an open-source compiler backend. It accepts LLVM IR and outputs native binaries. Various languages (e.g. Rust) can then implement a compiler front-end that output LLVM IR and use LLVM to compile to all the platforms LLVM supports. |
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Doesn't it stand for Low Level Virtual Machine? Or did they do it away with that.
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That's what I thought too, "The name "LLVM" itself is not an acronym; it is the full name of the project."
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I sort of remember that it was an acronym and they decided that was dumb, since it wasn't really a VM anymore, and so they stopped that.
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Ah, I can change it if you want. I just wrote whatever they said on the website...
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They all sounded right to me. |
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Needs rebase tho |
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Rebased :) Also, a heads up: I might be really slow to answer for the next few days... |
cc #48
EDIT: also remove duplicate MIR def...