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Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Compiler Optimization - What Is It?

Lvam is the creator and lead developer of one of the most powerful compiler optimization systems in use to day. Lvam: Compilers allow humans to think at a level of abstraction that they want to think about, and then get their programme to run on specific pieces of hardware. The challenge for compilers is trying to get maximum reuse out of the amount of code that you write because these compilers are very complicated.

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