Kai Nacke - Learn LLVM 12

A beginner's guide to learning LLVM compiler tools and core libraries with C++

Kai Nacke

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Kai Nacke is a professional IT architect currently living in Toronto, Canada. He holds a diploma in computer science from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. His diploma thesis about universal hash functions was recognized as the best of the semester.

He has been working in the IT industry for more than 20 years and has great experience in the development and architecture of business and enterprise applications. In his current role, he evolves an LLVM/Clang-based compiler.

For some years, he was the maintainer of LDC, the LLVM-based D compiler. He is the author of D Web Development, published by Packt. In the past, he was also a speaker in the LLVM developer room at the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM).

Suyog Sarda is a professional software engineer and an open source enthusiast. He focuses on compiler development and compiler tools. He is an active contributor to the LLVM open source community. Suyog was also involved in code performance improvements for the ARM and x86 architectures. He has been a part of the compiler team for the Tizen project. His interest in compiler development lies more in code optimization and vectorization. Previously, he has authored a book on LLVM, titled LLVM Cookbook, published by Packt. Apart from compilers, Suyog is also interested in Linux kernel development. He published a technical paper titled Secure Co-resident Virtualization in Multicore Systems by VM Pinning and Page Coloring at the IEEE Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing, Technologies, Applications, and Management at the Birla Institute of Technology, Dubai. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer technology from the College of Engineering, Pune, India.