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CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes”
Matt Godbolt tells the story of Compiler Explorer, from a hacky basement server to a cloud-scaled service handling tens of thousands of daily requests. He also shows its features and how it is built.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as the source on how Compiler Explorer began and for its lesser-known features like the machine code analyzer.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- CppCon
- Topic
- compiler explorer
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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There's a few nice hidden features presented in Matt Godbolt's talk here: [VIDEO] As for LLVM IR output, just use the right clang command line options: [LINK] Likewise for WASM: [LINK]
flohofwoe on Hacker News · 2021-03
In How to Read Assembly LanguageI recently watched the CppCon 2019 talk by Matt Godbolt "Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes"[1], and a cool feature he presented is the integrated LLVM Machine Code Analyser tool. If you look at the "timeline" and "resource" views of how a Zen 3 executes a …
jiggawatts on Hacker News · 2021-07
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