While LLVM is undoubtedly a great project for compiler research, lets not forget those that predated it with similar ideas like the Amsterdam Compiler Toolkit, or IBM's PL.8 compiler for the RISC project.
The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
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#12This infrastructure is also slow and leads to poor compilation times for any language that uses llvm as a backend. In an era of automatic code generation, this will become more and more of a problem as llvm compilation times will become a huge bottleneck. I am very bearish on llvm as a technology and while I will acknowledge its influence, I expect that it is at or near its peak and market share will decline dramatic…
Where are the fast alternatives though that do the same level of optimizations?
LLVM might not be the fastest, but when you get to the point that build times become a problem, your code base is too big (or your frontend is doing silly things). Maybe ask your 'automatic code generation' to generate less code bloat ;)
Re: The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
#13This infrastructure is also slow and leads to poor compilation times for any language that uses llvm as a backend. In an era of automatic code generation, this will become more and more of a problem as llvm compilation times will become a huge bottleneck. I am very bearish on llvm as a technology and while I will acknowledge its influence, I expect that it is at or near its peak and market share will decline dramatic…
Where are the fast alternatives though that do the same level of optimizations? LLVM might not be the fastest, but when you get to the point that build times become a problem, your code base is too big (or your frontend is doing silly things). Maybe ask your 'automatic code generation' to generate less code bloat ;)
The only alternative I'm aware of with a similar level of optimization is GCC's backend, which is just as slow.
Both should be much faster at compiling debug builds than they are though. There's an LLVM fork (TPDE-LLVM) that supports a limited set of backend targets but compiles way faster (order of magnitude) for O0, but for whatever reason they haven't managed to merge it with the mainline LLVM. Even with that there's still plenty of overhead from all the horrible C++ OOP-brained abstractions LLVM uses.
Re: The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
#14This infrastructure is also slow and leads to poor compilation times for any language that uses llvm as a backend. In an era of automatic code generation, this will become more and more of a problem as llvm compilation times will become a huge bottleneck. I am very bearish on llvm as a technology and while I will acknowledge its influence, I expect that it is at or near its peak and market share will decline dramatic…
5 years? There would need to be already production ready, growing alternative
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In an era of automatic code generation lol what does this even mean
it means that was an AI-generated comment to an article which was also AI-generated. The other comment replying to this comment is also AI-written. The internet is not dead, its just fake
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#17I’ve been shocked by how much LLVM leaves on the table while designing Logos language! Some very exciting benchmarks coming soon that we’ve been working on for over 6 months, but LLVM misses a LOT of potential optimizations when you have a strong type system!
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#18I’ve been shocked by how much LLVM leaves on the table while designing Logos language! Some very exciting benchmarks coming soon that we’ve been working on for over 6 months, but LLVM misses a LOT of potential optimizations when you have a strong type system!
Is there a URL for that language? It is unfortunately a bit un-googleable!
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#19I’ve been shocked by how much LLVM leaves on the table while designing Logos language! Some very exciting benchmarks coming soon that we’ve been working on for over 6 months, but LLVM misses a LOT of potential optimizations when you have a strong type system!
Is there a URL for that language? It is unfortunately a bit un-googleable!
found this:
https://logicaffeine.com/guide
Re: The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
#20This infrastructure is also slow and leads to poor compilation times for any language that uses llvm as a backend. In an era of automatic code generation, this will become more and more of a problem as llvm compilation times will become a huge bottleneck. I am very bearish on llvm as a technology and while I will acknowledge its influence, I expect that it is at or near its peak and market share will decline dramatic…
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