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Main takeaway, it avoids SSA Earlier HN discussion 183pts 63 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098
by gradschoolfail 3y ago
Main takeaway, it avoids SSA
Earlier HN discussion 183pts 63 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098399
Whats the chance nateb2022? this is way too close (in name) to Lattner’s MLIR to ignore, i thought this morning as I was brushing my teeth. {not to mention LLVM’s own MIR}
https://llvm.org/docs/MIRLangRef.html https://llvm.org/docs/MIRLangRef.html
- dibyendu 3y agoSSA is used internally, but the instruction set does not require SSA, if that's what you meant
- gradschoolfail 3y ago“ Using SSA simplifies the optimization implementations, but building and destroying this form is expensive. Using SSA for the MIR generator's short-pass pipeline makes little sense to me, so I don't use it.” In his blogpost.