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From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :(
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:02:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150827170258.GA32018@apio.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12316003.TfusLl0gel@andromeda>

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:42:07PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> 
> That solved the block for me as it ended up removing "llvm"
> 
> What is "llvm" actually used for?
> 
> --
> Joost
> 

Some of the graphics code in mesa is written in LLVM's IR and compiled
on the fly using all of the x86 extensions (SSE, AVX, etc.) that are
available[1].

Alec

1. http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-27 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-27 14:34 [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :( gevisz
2015-08-27 14:43 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-08-27 14:53   ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-08-27 15:16   ` gevisz
2015-08-27 15:18     ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-08-27 15:28       ` gevisz
2015-08-27 14:52 ` Marc Joliet
2015-08-27 15:25   ` gevisz
2015-08-27 15:33     ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-27 15:42       ` J. Roeleveld
2015-08-27 16:19         ` [gentoo-user] " James
2015-08-27 17:02         ` Alec Ten Harmsel [this message]
2015-08-27 17:13         ` [gentoo-user] " Marc Joliet
2015-08-28  9:44           ` J. Roeleveld
2015-08-28 12:56             ` Marc Joliet
2015-08-27 17:21       ` Neil Bothwick
2015-08-28  4:03         ` gevisz
2015-08-28  9:34           ` gevisz
2015-08-28 10:25             ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-08-28 11:16               ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-27 16:58     ` Marc Joliet

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