Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "LLVM" in English language version.
The name 'LLVM' was once an acronym, but is now just a brand for the umbrella project.
'LLVM' is officially no longer an acronym. The acronym it once expanded too was confusing, and inappropriate almost from day 1. :) As LLVM has grown to encompass other subprojects, it became even less useful and meaningless.
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The current NVVM IR is based on LLVM 5.0
RubyMotion transforms the Ruby source code of your project into ... machine code using a[n] ... ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler, based on LLVM.
