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diff --git a/docs/paper.tex b/docs/paper.tex index 453e1d66..4bb8b267 100644 --- a/docs/paper.tex +++ b/docs/paper.tex @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ %\maketitle \begin{abstract} -We present Emscripten, an LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler. Emscripten compiles -LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) assembly code into standard JavaScript, which opens up two avenues for running code written -in languages other than JavaScript on the web: (1) Compile code directly into LLVM bitcode, and +We present Emscripten, a compiler from LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) assembly to JavaScript. This +opens up two avenues for running code written +in languages other than JavaScript on the web: (1) Compile code directly into LLVM assemby, and then compile that into JavaScript using Emscripten, or (2) Compile a language's entire runtime into LLVM and then JavaScript, as in the previous approach, and then use the compiled runtime to run code written in that language. For example, the @@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ not Python, so for example division of integers can yield unexpected results but in JavaScript and in Pyjamas a floating-point number can be generated). In this paper we present another project along those lines: \textbf{Emscripten}, -which compiles LLVM assembly code into JavaScript. LLVM (the Low Level Virtual -Machine\footnote{\url{http://llvm.org/}}) is a compiler project primarily focused on C, C++ and +which compiles LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine\footnote{\url{http://llvm.org/}}) assembly into JavaScript. +LLVM is a compiler project primarily focused on C, C++ and Objective-C. It compiles those languages through a \emph{frontend} (the main ones of which are Clang and LLVM-GCC) into the LLVM intermediary representation (which can be machine-readable |