> This is one of the very few successful projects that used LLVM to accelerate a dynamic language.
Yup. Another is Open Shading Language[0]. They ended up with performance 25% faster than the previous shaders, which were coded by hand in C. It's used now in Blender's "Cycles" renderer. Yay, open source!
Yup. Another is Open Shading Language[0]. They ended up with performance 25% faster than the previous shaders, which were coded by hand in C. It's used now in Blender's "Cycles" renderer. Yay, open source!
[0] https://github.com/imageworks/OpenShadingLanguage/