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+Emscripten is an LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler. It takes LLVM bitcode - which can be generated from C/C++, using llvm-gcc or clang, or any other language that can be converted into LLVM - and compiles that into JavaScript, which can be run on the web (or anywhere else JavaScript can run).
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+See LICENSE.txt for copyright and redistribution.
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+See http://code.google.com/p/emscripten/ for project info, getting started, FAQ, etc.
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