Sure, now you get to enjoy all those PS4 optimizations, and watchOS bitcode portability fixes in LLVM.
If he could just stop being a zealot for a split second and actually tried to understand the situation, he could have maybe been able to foresee that Apple had the people, resources and will to reimplement a whole compiler infrastructure that could threaten GCC's dominance, but he neglected it (it famously didn't care about Apple's offer to merge LLVM into GCC under the GPL).
Sometimes even the best of intents are shadowed by people's inability to compromise.
Sometimes the hate for a license prevents people to grasp what is ahead of them.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sony-Tha...
or that:
There are some talks from Sony at LLVM meetings regarding those.
That PR from Apple has nothing to do with the bitcode reference I made.
I don't know, maybe other AMD users would like to get them?
>might provide clues how to bipass PS 4 security
>AMD users would like to get them
They got em:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sony-Tha...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-10-...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sony-LLV...
Why do i want ANY PS4 specific security feautures in the Compiler??