LLVM
A system mentioned as a good example of efforts towards a universal intermediate code, which won the Turing ACM award.
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Videos Mentioning LLVM
Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162
Lex Fridman
The Low-Level Virtual Machine, created by Chris Lattner, which became the intermediate representation for all compilers.
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
Latent Space
A compiler infrastructure project that Chris Lattner was instrumental in developing, serving as a precedent for Modular's approach.
The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
Latent Space
Chris Lattner's work on LLVM is mentioned as foundational for his subsequent projects like Swift and Mojo.
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #35
Lex Fridman
A collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies, which Swift builds upon, offering potential for optimized deep learning.
Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131
Lex Fridman
A compiler infrastructure project created by Chris Lattner, serving as a versatile framework for building various compilers and toolchains. It is particularly good for CPUs but has challenges with domain-specific hardware like GPUs.
Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21
Lex Fridman
A compiler infrastructure project created by Chris Lattner, serving as a modular optimization and code generation framework.
Improving Intermediate Codes - Computerphile
Computerphile
A system mentioned as a good example of efforts towards a universal intermediate code, which won the Turing ACM award.
Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224
Lex Fridman
A collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies, used as the code generation backend for Numba, allowing Python bytecode to be translated into fast machine code.
Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
Lex Fridman
A compiler infrastructure project, used by Alon Zakai to compile C/C++ to JavaScript.