20 full time programmers, but if each of them has 1/40 of the skills of X. Leroy, LLVM will get only 50% of the caml native compiler performance.
I'm not sure hype is correlated with value as you seem to imply but i might be wrong.

This was the troll of the day.

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com> wrote:
Erik wrote:
> Jon wrote:
> > LLVM is also much better documented than ocamlopt's internals.
>
> LLVM has well over 20 full time programmers working on it. The
> Ocaml compiler has how many?

Another reason why LLVM deserves its hype.

Cheers,
Jon.


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