[llvm-dev] RFC: Adding IR Transformation examples/tutorial code to llvm-project

[Florian Hahn via llvm-dev]

> On Oct 26, 2019, at 16:06, Andrzej Warzynski via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> +1 I think that this will be super helpful, thank you Florian!
> 
> On 24/10/2019 18:24, David Blaikie via llvm-dev wrote:
>> Sounds good - bonus points if these examples were motivated with a 
>> continuation to the Kaleidoscope tutorial - Eric Christopher and I did a 
>> tutorial on debug info back in 2014 and included new chapters for 
>> Kaleidoscope for future usage.
> 
> From the conversations that I had during LLVM Dev, Kaleidoscope isn't 
> as helpful beginner tutorial as we tend to think. IMHO, self-contained 
> examples like Florian is proposing are more useful. Meike Baumgärtner 
> presented a great talk on the matter.
> 
> If we want to keep the number of extra CMake flags to minimum, maybe it 
> would be worth considering such examples as _opt_ plugins? This could 
> then leverage the mechanism proposed here:
> 1. Phab patch: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61446?id=221321#change-uAgt0khUmRhe
> 2. RFC: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-May/132128.html


Yes I think we should move to that mechanism, once it is available (Michael pointed that out during the review as well), but not necessarily block submitting the first examples until the new mechanism is available.

Cheers,
Florian