Mr. 4th Programming Conversations
Allen Webster, the creator of the Mr. 4th Programming YouTube channel, interviews programmers on their views and experiences of programming. Topics include trends in independent software culture, insights about being an effective software developer, the strengths and weaknesses of specific techniques and technologies, and much more. Find more about Mr. 4th at mr4th.com
Mr. 4th Programming Conversations
"Compilers and JITs" with Yasser Arguelles Snape
Here I talk with Yasser Arguelles Snape to learn about his work on compiler optimizers, and pick his brain about the architecture of low level software systems.
We discuss his experience as a young programmer, his work on Cuik and TB, the LLVM optimizer and what could be improved in a new iteration, the tradeoffs of ahead-of-time compilation and just-in-time compilation, various views of how debugging could be architected, and the benefits of having a rich run time for applications.
Links:
Cuik - https://github.com/RealNeGate/Cuik
Yasser's Recommended Resources for Learning Optimizers:
https://gist.github.com/RealNeGate/d0d45b74d7352872d4cf2470a600fbbb
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rjsimmon/15411-f15/lec/10-ssa.pdf
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/c2-ir95-150110.pdf https://inria.hal.science/hal-01723236/file/sea-of-nodes-hal.pdf