LabVIEW 2010 uses opensource compiler

Interesting news worth to spread about the commercial LabVIEW :

In LabVIEW 2010, the DFIR offers new compiler optimizations such as algebraic reassociation, common subexpression elimination, loop unrolling, and subVI inlining. This release also includes the adoption of a Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) into the LabVIEW compiler chain. LLVM is an open-source compiler infrastructure used widely in industry. With LLVM, new optimizations were added such as instruction scheduling, loop unswitching, instruction combining, conditional propagation, and a more sophisticated register allocator.

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Labview 6.1 on Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 alpha

Heise.de provides a free copy of Labview 6.1 which is intended to personal use and not compatible with Labview 8.5. Fedora Users can download the RPMS zipped from heise.de.

# ./install

There was only one minor thing I had to do before using Labview 6.1 on my fedora.

$ labview
Failure : “filemgr.cpp”, line 4145
LabVIEW version 6.1
For assistance in resolving this problem, please record the preceding information and navigate to http://www.ni.com/failure, or contact National Instruments.
Aborted

$ mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
.host:/ on /mnt/hgfs type vmhgfs (rw,ttl=5)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
none on /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint type vmblock (rw)

# tune2fs -O “^dir_index” /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
tune2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)

$ labview

That’s it. I wish there could be an opensource equivalent of LabView.

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