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LLVM powers the core development tools, operating systems, and most applications at Apple Computer, where it long ago ...

Have you ever wanted to analyze or mutate some C or C++ code? You can do some simple pattern matching with regular expressions, but there’s always some special case or another that will break your ...

In a previous blog post, we discussed the benefits of using automation to maximize the performance of a system. One use case I mentioned was compiler flag mining, and the fact that performance is ...

Google Propeller is able to improve the performance of LLVM binaries by relinking and optimizing them based on a profile of their behaviour at runtime. Propeller can bring 2-9% improvements on key ...