Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?)

[Roman Divacky]

> IMHO it seems highly unlikely that some new kid on the block like llvm 
> will be able to answer our problems. The argument that "it's good for 
> Apple, it should be good for us" to me seems to be little out of touch 
> with reality. First of all, Apple cares about significantly lesser 
> number of architectures. They don't have IA64, Sparc or MIPS, they will 
> probably drop PPC soon. Second, they have a capacity (read "big money") 
> to port compiler to a new architecture, fix it as needed or extend it to 
> support some features provided by never chips if they need to. We don't 
> have that capacity.

llvm currently supports:

X86 Sparc PowerPC Alpha IA64 ARM Mips CellSPU PIC16 XCore CBackend MSIL CppBackend