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| From: | Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :( | ||
| Date: | Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:03:19 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20150827170258.GA32018@apio.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :( by "J. Roeleveld" |
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| 1 | On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:42:07PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
| 2 | > |
| 3 | > That solved the block for me as it ended up removing "llvm" |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > What is "llvm" actually used for? |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > -- |
| 8 | > Joost |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Some of the graphics code in mesa is written in LLVM's IR and compiled |
| 12 | on the fly using all of the x86 extensions (SSE, AVX, etc.) that are |
| 13 | available[1]. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Alec |
| 16 | |
| 17 | 1. http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html |