> Reading the code, why not, but compiling it? Compiling it with changes you made to learn about how compilers work. Such as adding a new optimisation phase.

> Reading the code, why not, but compiling it? Compiling it with changes you made to learn about how compilers work. Such as adding a new optimisation phase. > I can't see what you could learn about compilation in a CS sense by compiling LLVM. You don't learn by compiling it obviously. You learn by extending it and running it, and to do that you need to compile it.