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authorQuentin Carbonneaux <quentin.carbonneaux@yale.edu>2016-03-23 22:33:36 -0400
committerQuentin Carbonneaux <quentin.carbonneaux@yale.edu>2016-03-23 22:33:36 -0400
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typos in llvm.txt (thanks lucie)
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@@ -4,31 +4,31 @@
 
 
 Both QBE and LLVM are compiler backends using an SSA
-representation.  This document will explain why the
-advanced stage in which LLVM is does not make QBE a
-redundant project.  Obviously, everything following is
-probably biased, because written by me.
+representation.  This document will explain why LLVM
+does not make QBE a redundant project.  Obviously,
+everything following is probably biased, because
+written by me.
 
 - Scope
 -------
 
-QBE is a much smaller scale projects with different
-goals than LLVM.
+QBE is a much smaller scale project with different goals
+than LLVM.
 
   * QBE is for amateur language designers.
 
     It does not address all the problems faced when
     conceiving an industry-grade language.  If you are
     toying with some language ideas, using LLVM will
-    feel like throwing your backpack in a truck, but
-    using QBE will feel more like biking.
+    be like hauling your backpack in a truck, but using
+    QBE will feel more like biking.
 
   * QBE is about the first 70%, not the last 30%.
 
     It attempts to pinpoint, in the extremely vast
     compilation literature, the optimizations that get
-    you 70% of the performance in 10% of the code needed
-    to scrape the last bits of performance.
+    you 70% of the performance in 10% of the code of
+    full blown compilers.
 
     For example, copy propagation on SSA form is
     implemented in 160 lines of code in QBE!
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ are a few things provided in QBE to consider.
 
   * LLVM IR is more cluttered with memory operations.
 
-    Implementing SSA construction is hard, and to save
-    its frontends from having to do it, LLVM provides
+    Implementing SSA construction is hard.  To save its
+    users from having to implement it, LLVM provides
     stack slots.  This means that one increment of
     a variable `v` will be composed of three LLVM
     instructions: one load, one add, and one store.
@@ -87,13 +87,13 @@ are a few things provided in QBE to consider.
 
     For the sake of advanced optimizations and
     correctness, LLVM has complex IL types.  However,
-    only a few types are really first class in the IL
-    and many operations of source languages require
-    casts to be compiled.
+    only a few types are really first class and many
+    operations of source languages require casts to be
+    compiled.
 
     Because QBE makes a much lighter use of types, the
     IL is more readable and shorter.  It can of course be
     argued back that correctness of QBE is jeoparadized,
-    but remember that, in practice, the large amounts
+    but remember that, in practice, the large amount
     of casts necessary in LLVM IL is compromizing the
     overall effectiveness of the type system.