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LLVM Founder, Swift Creator Chris Lattner Is Leaving Apple
Chris Lattner who is known most recently for starting the Swift programming language while most profoundly he is the original creator of LLVM/Clang, is leaving his job at Apple.
Lattner had been the director of the Developer Tools department, including Xcode and similar compiler efforts around Swift/LLVM. Chris joined Apple in 2005 due to his work on LLVM/Clang. His wife is the president of the LLVM Foundation. Coming as a surprise today is that he's leaving Apple and no longer the Swift Project Lead, per this mailing list post.
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LLVM/Clang Finally Lands Mainline Support For AMD's Zen/Ryzen Processors
The latest LLVM and Clang compiler code as of this morning now has support for Zen (AMD Ryzen) processors.
Back in 2015 there was the AMD Zen "znver1" patches for GCC along with Zen for Binutils while with the latest Git/SVN development code for LLVM/Clang today is similar "znver1" support.
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