From c56e582143edb016bb588af56e8d9ba894254c1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Misha Brukman <brukman+llvm@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 16:29:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * Reworded a bit about JITs (I don't like acronyms followed
 by 's) * Added JIT capability to the LLI description section * LLC is
 quasi-x86-capable

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@7098 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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 docs/GettingStarted.html | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/GettingStarted.html b/docs/GettingStarted.html
index b61bf6f6a62..c2aac2fb66c 100644
--- a/docs/GettingStarted.html
+++ b/docs/GettingStarted.html
@@ -105,8 +105,7 @@
     on other platforms, so it should be possible to generate and produce LLVM
     bytecode on unsupported platforms (although bytecode generated on one
     platform may not work on another platform).  However, the code generators
-    and Just In Time Compilers (JIT's) only generate SparcV9 or x86 machine
-    code.
+    and Just-In-Time (JIT) compilers only generate SparcV9 or x86 machine code.
 
     <!--=====================================================================-->
     <h4><a name="software"><b>Software</b></a></h4>
@@ -719,10 +718,13 @@
       can directly execute LLVM bytecode (although very slowly...). In addition
       to a simple interpreter, <tt>lli</tt> is also has debugger and tracing
       modes (entered by specifying <tt>-debug</tt> or <tt>-trace</tt> on the
-      command line, respectively).<p>
+      command line, respectively). Finally, for architectures that support it
+      (currently only x86 and Sparc), by default, <tt>lli</tt> will function as
+      a Just-In-Time compiler (if the functionality was compiled in), and will
+      execute the code <i>much</i> faster than the interpreter.<p>
 
       <dt><tt><b>llc</b></tt><dd> <tt>llc</tt> is the LLVM backend compiler,
-      which translates LLVM bytecode to a SPARC assembly file.<p>
+      which translates LLVM bytecode to a SPARC or x86 assembly file.<p>
 
       <dt><tt><b>llvmgcc</b></tt><dd> <tt>llvmgcc</tt> is a GCC based C frontend
       that has been retargeted to emit LLVM code as the machine code output.  It
@@ -806,7 +808,7 @@
       <tt>% dis < hello.bc | less</tt><p>
 
     <li>Compile the program to native Sparc assembly using the code
-    generator:<p>
+    generator (assuming you are currently on a Sparc system):<p>
 
       <tt>% llc hello.bc -o hello.s</tt><p>
 
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