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2 LLVM 8.0.0 Release Notes
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9 These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 8 release.
10 Release notes for previous releases can be found on
11 `the Download Page <https://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_.
17 This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
18 release 8.0.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
19 from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and
20 some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded
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34 Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
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53 Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
55 Changes to the LLVM IR
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59 Changes to the ARM Backend
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65 Changes to the MIPS Target
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71 Changes to the PowerPC Target
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76 Changes to the X86 Target
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81 Changes to the AMDGPU Target
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86 Changes to the AVR Target
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91 Changes to the OCaml bindings
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100 Changes to the DAG infrastructure
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103 External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 8
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109 Additional Information
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113 <https://llvm.org/>`_, in particular in the `documentation
114 <https://llvm.org/docs/>`_ section. The web page also contains versions of the
115 API documentation which is up-to-date with the Subversion version of the source
116 code. You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by
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