The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

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• norir 19 minutes ago
  This infrastructure is also slow and leads to poor compilation times for any language that uses llvm as a backend. In an era of automatic code generation, this will become more and more of a problem as llvm compilation times will become a huge bottleneck. I am very bearish on llvm as a technology and while I will acknowledge its influence, I expect that it is at or near its peak and market share will decline dramatically over the next five to ten years.
• kelseyfrog 4 hours ago
  It's also fairly accessible to LLMs. I was surprised at how quickly a self-hosting compiler could be brought up using the LLVM ecosystem.
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  • arikrahman 3 hours ago
    That's what I've been doing with a custom jank implementation, taking advantage of the LLVM changes contributed upstream to LLVM 22.
• visha1v 2 days ago
  LLVM here refers to the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, an open source software system created to simplify the design and implementation of compilers and a wide range of compiler-based tools.
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  • MeetingsBrowser 4 hours ago
    As opposed to what?
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    • QQ00 2 hours ago
      LLM. I guess the commenter didn't want people to confuse LLM with LLVM because of naming similarly.