Monthly Archives: January 2009

The joy of cross-platform development

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Josh

Only when you develop cross-platform do you get the joy of using both the best profiler ever and the best memory debugger ever.

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Gazelle *not* in the browser

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Josh

Scratch what I said the other day. Delivering a Gazelle IDE as a web application was this great attempt-to-be-forward-thinking dream that I clung to for a while. But yesterday in the wake of the news that Qt is going LGPL … Continue reading →

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Gazelle in the browser

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Josh

While I’m on a roll with these blog entries, I thought I’d share just one more secret that’s been kicking around in my head for a while. I desperately want to see a Gazelle development environment that runs in your … Continue reading →

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Playing with LLVM

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Josh

For no reason in particular I decided to dig into LLVM today. I decided to try out its assembly language by writing a line count program in it (I chose this problem since I had previously written an optimized x86 … Continue reading →

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LLVM Bitcode vs. Protocol Buffers

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Josh

In a comment to a previous entry, Emmanuel Castro asks: You chose the LLVM bitcode format for Gazelle instead of Google Protocol Buffer. Is there any reason, or was it just because you made the choice before Protocol Buffer was … Continue reading →

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