LLVM: A Compilation Framework for Lifelong Program Analysis & Transformation

Lattner, C., & Adve, V. (2004). LLVM: A Compilation Framework for Lifelong Program Analysis & Transformation. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), 75-86.

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Conference paper

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Primary research

Year

2004

DOI

10.1109/cgo.2004.1281665

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/977395.977673

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computer_science, systems_cybernetics

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Primes

• Dependency
  • Software build systems (Aho, Lam, Sethi, and Ullman 2006; Lattner and Adve 2004). A modern build system like Bazel, Make, or Ninja represents a project as a directed acyclic graph of build targets, where each target depends on input files and other targets.

    This sourceDevelops dependency-graph data structures (SSA-based use-def chains) reused across compilation stages — cited inline in the software-build-systems example.

• Multi Path Convergence
  • In computer science, many source languages compile to the same intermediate representation, and canonical forms in computer algebra reduce every equivalent expression to one representative.

    This sourceMultiple source languages are lowered to a single canonical intermediate representation, decoupling the shared optimization/code-generation back-end from input language diversity.

Domain-specific

• Intermediate representation
  • … identity and a convenient observable transfers from Static single-assignment IR gives each value one definition and represents merges with phi-like operations, simplifying data-flow analysis. to A virtual machine distributes typed bytecode that is interpreted or just-in-time compiled on several architectures..

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