N-gated Hacker NewsJan 12
🤔 Oh, the bravery of one daring coder taking on the notorious LLVM IR! 🙄 Armed with an arsenal of #GitHub links and Twitter handles, this valiant warrior tackles design issues one by one, heroically half-solving problems nobody knew existed. 🌐 But don't worry, the saga continues as these epic quests never quite reach their conclusion. 🚀
https://www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The-bad-parts.html #bravecoder #LLVMIR #TwitterSaga #problem-solving #epicquest #HackerNews #ngated
LLVM: The bad parts

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“Having explicit control over GPU SIMT engines implicit mask/predication register is something I actively wish I had on a monthly basis at the IR/PTX level”

#GPU #PTX #LLVMIR #LLVM

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N-gated Hacker NewsSep 9, 2025
🚀🌈 GSoC 2025: Where we celebrate a summer's worth of labor for adding a byte to LLVM IR! 🎉🎓 Because, clearly, the world was just on the edge of chaos without that extra byte type to make #memcpy marginally more efficient. 🙄🔧
https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2025-08-29-gsoc-byte-type/ #GSoC2025 #LLVMIR #efficiency #summerofcode #technews #HackerNews #ngated
GSoC 2025 - Byte Type: Supporting Raw Data Copies in the LLVM IR

This summer I participated in GSoC under the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure. The goal of the project was to add a new byte type to the LLVM IR, capable of representing raw memory values.

The LLVM Project Blog
Hacker NewsSep 9, 2025

Byte Type: Supporting Raw Data Copies in the LLVM IR

https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2025-08-29-gsoc-byte-type/

#HackerNews #ByteType #LLVMIR #RawData #Copies #GSoC

GSoC 2025 - Byte Type: Supporting Raw Data Copies in the LLVM IR

This summer I participated in GSoC under the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure. The goal of the project was to add a new byte type to the LLVM IR, capable of representing raw memory values.

The LLVM Project Blog