Mayur Pandey - LLVM Cookbook

Mayur Pandey 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. He has been part of the compiler team for the Tizen project, and has hands-on experience with other proprietary compilers.

Mayur earned a bachelor's degree in information technology from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. Currently, he lives in Bengaluru, India.

I would like to thank my family and friends. They made it possible for me to complete the book by taking care of my other commitments and always encouraging me.

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. He has been part of the compiler team for the Tizen project. Suyog was also involved in code performance improvements for the ARM and the x86 architecture. He has hands-on experience in other proprietary compilers. His interest in compiler development lies more in code optimization and vectorization.

Apart from compilers, Suyog is also interested in Linux kernel development. He has 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 Birla Institute of Technology, Dubai. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer technology from College of Engineering, Pune, India. Currently, he lives in Bengaluru, India.

I would like to thank my family and friends. I would also like to thank the LLVM open-source community for always being helpful.

Logan Chien received his master's degree in computer science from National Taiwan University. His research interests include compiler design, compiler optimization, and virtual machines. He is a full-time software engineer. In his free time, he works on several open source projects, such as LLVM and Android. Logan has participated in the LLVM project since 2012.

Michael Haidl is a high performance computing engineer with focus on many core architectures that consist of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Intel Xeon Phi accelerators. He has been a C++ developer for more than 14 years, and has gained many skills in parallel programming, exploiting various programming models (CUDA) over the years. He has a diploma in computer science and physics. Currently, Michael is employed as a research associate at the University of Mnster, Germany, and is writing his PhD thesis with focus on compilation techniques for GPUs utilizing the LLVM infrastructure.

I would like to thank my wife for supporting me every day with her smiles and love. I would also like to thank the entire LLVM community for all the hard work they have put into LLVM/Clang and other LLVM projects. It is amazing to see how fast LLVM evolves.

Dave (Jing) Tian is a graduate research fellow and PhD student in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida. He is a founding member of the SENSEI center. His research direction involves system security, embedded system security, trusted computing, static code analysis for security, and virtualization. He is interested in Linux kernel hacking and compiler hacking.

Dave spent a year on AI and machine learning, and taught Python and operating systems at the University of Oregon. Before that, he worked as a software developer in the LCP (Linux control platform) group in research and development at Alcatel-Lucent (formerly Lucent Technologies), for approximately 4 years. He holds a bachelor's degree in science and a master's degree in electronics engineering in China. You can reach him at <.

I would like to thank the author of this book, who has done a good job. Thanks to the editors of the book at Packt Publishing, who made this book perfect and offered me the opportunity to review such a nice book.