LLVM Techniques, Tips, and Best Practices Clang and Middle-End Libraries

Chapter 1: Saving Resources When Building LLVM

LLVM is the state-of-the-art compiler optimization and code generation framework adopted by many amazing industrial and academic projects, such as the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler in JavaScript engines and machine learning (ML) frameworks. It is a useful toolbox for building programming languages and binary file tools. However, despite the project's robustness, its learning resources are scattered, and it doesn't have the best documentation either. Due to this, it has a pretty steep learning curve, even for developers with some LLVM experience. This book aims to tackle these issues by providing you with knowledge of common and important domains in LLVM in a pragmatic fashion – showing you some useful ...