SE-Radio Episode 291: Morgan Wilde on LLVM

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers

• Episode: SE-Radio Episode 291: Morgan Wilde on LLVM
• Website: Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/se-radio
• Duration: 00:53:44
• Published: 2017-05-15 23:53

Morgan Wilde talks with SE Radio’s Jeff Meyerson about the LLVM compiler toolchain. They begin with a discussion of how a compiler works and how compiled code executes against different processor architectures. Using the JVM as a model for interoperability, they move on to how LLVM is a system that optimizes an intermediate representation (IR), which is similar to the Java bytecode: every programming language that compiles down to IR can leverage the same optimizations of that IR. The conversation concludes with a discussion of applications of LLVM and the future of the ecosystem.