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Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21

Lex Fridman · 200.1K views · 2019-05-13 · 1:13:06

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Lex Fridman interviews Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, Clang and Swift, about compilers, Swift for TensorFlow, TPUs and ML accelerators. The talk covers how hardware and software meet to produce efficient code.

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HN commenters point to it as an interesting conversation with the creator of Swift and LLVM, especially for compilers and ML compilation.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2019–2025

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tony · 2025-09 · Recommendation

Chris Lattner also has a very good episode on Lex Fridman (Episode 381, June 2nd, 2023): - [LINK] - [LINK] - [LINK] He has two other episodes on the show: - [LINK] (Episode 131, October 18th, 2020) - [VIDEO] (Episode 21, May 13th, 2019)

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mwattsun · 2021-12 · Recommendation

I always wondered why the creator of Rust switched to Swift and just now found my answer by Graydon Hoare himself: [LINK] tl;dr it has nothing to do with the relative merits of the two languages --- Edit: I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21 [VIDEO] Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131 [LINK]

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cs702 · 2019-09 · Reference

How does this relate to all the work that Christ Lattner et al have been doing at Google with Swift, MLIR, etc.?[a] Is this... a separate, parallel, more encompassing proposal? Is there any coordination between these two groups? -- [a] [VIDEO]

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