[LLVMdev] New LLVM talk

[Chris Lattner]

Hi All,

I recently delivered this talk, which describes some applications of LLVM:
http://llvm.org/pubs/2007-03-12-BossaLLVMIntro.html

Abstract:

LLVM (http://llvm.org) is a suite of carefully designed open source 
libraries which implement compiler components (like language front-ends, 
code generators, aggressive optimizers, Just-In-Time compiler support, 
debug support, link-time optimization, etc). The goal of the LLVM project 
is to build these components in a way that allows them to be combined 
together to create familiar tools (like a C compiler), interesting new 
tools (like an OpenGL JIT compiler) and many other things we haven't 
though of yet. Because LLVM is under continuous development, clients of 
these components naturally benefit from improvements in the libraries.

This talk gives an overview of LLVM's architecture, design and philosophy, 
and gives a high-level overview of the various components that are 
available. It then describes implementation details and design points of 
some example clients -- LLVM's GCC-based C/C++/Objective-C compiler, the 
OpenGL stack in Mac OS/X Leopard, and scripting language compilers -- 
describing some of the novel capabilities that LLVM contributes to these 
projects.

-Chris

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