Crystal: LLVM opaque pointer support has landed

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A new Crystal blog post/announcement has been posted!

Crystal 1.8, the upcoming minor release, will support LLVM’s opaque pointers for the first time, allowing the compiler to be built with LLVM 15 or above. Additionally, this update brings a significant improvement to compilation times.

Pointers in LLVM

To understand the significance of opaque pointers, let’s take a look at a small sample program:

# test.cr
class Foo
  def initialize(@x : Int32)
  end
end
Foo.new(1)

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Get the full details here: LLVM opaque pointer support has landed - The Crystal Programming Language

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