ASPLOS Keynote: The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-design by Dr. Chris Lattner

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended for explaining where the compiler ecosystem lacks standardization for accelerators and why efforts like MLIR and CIRCT matter.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

SiFive

Topic

compilers and hardware co-design

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• You might like this talk that describes parts of the compiler ecosystem that are lacking standardization for accelerators [VIDEO]

• They've tried variations of this. It takes instruction bits to describe these registers: 32 regs is 5 bits, target + src1 + src2 is 15 bits already. They've tried scratch pads. The Mill CPU's Belt is yet another approach. [LINK] [LINK] How to Use 1000 …

• I contribute to CIRCT, so I feel like I should chime in here. I personally hope that it can provide exactly the kind of unifying IRs we are all hoping for in the open-source community. The fact that the tools are implemented in C++ may …