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#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages

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Is LLVM a Good Compiler Framework?

I think as an observer is almost like a fan. I don't often think about, you know, some things might actually be technically difficult to implement. We built this new compiler framework called MLAR. It's not many people think it's about machine learning. The ML stands for multi-level because compilation people can't name things very well,. Do we dig into what ML is? Yeah, so when you look at compilers, compilers have historically been solutions for a given space. So LLVM is really good for dealing with CPUs, let's just say, at a high level. Java has a JVM. The JVM is very good for garbage collected languages that need dynamic

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