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LLVM Weekly

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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #668, October 19th 2026 Krish Gupta wrote on the LLVM project blog about their GSoC project on a static memory planner for MLIR .

10.19
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #667, October 12th 2026 Prasoon Kumar wrote on the LLVM Project blog about their GSoC project to improve lit .

10.12
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #666, October 5th 2026 Mohamed Emad wrote on the LLVM blog about their GSoC project to share LLVM-libc’s floating-point routines with compiler-rt .

10.05
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #665, September 28th 2026 As you may have seen already on the LLVM blog or elsewhere, there is the tragic news that long-time LLVM contributor Johannes Doerfert passed away after a battle with cancer.

09.28
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #664, September 21st 2026 A little bit off-topic, but today is notable for being the 25th anniversary of the founding of Igalia .

09.21
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #663, September 14th 2026 Dominic Stöcker wrote on the LLVM blog about their GSoC project to extend Clang API notes for C++ with overload-specific annotations for functions and methods .

09.14
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #662, September 7th 2026 The next LLVM/Clang social at Darmstadt will take place on September 30th and feature the talk “From Kotlin to IREE: Model as Code with MLIR and StableHLO” by Michal Harakal.

09.07
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #661, August 31st 2026 Submissions are open for BoF session proposals at the Embedded Toolchains Workshop taking place just before the main LLVM Developers' Meeting.

08.31
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #660, August 24th 2026 Fangrui Song posted a detailed RFC on teaching RegAllocFast to consume SSA MachineIR directly , dropping PHIElimination and TwoAddressInstructionPass from the pipeline. This improved codegen time by ~4.5% for lld/ELF/Dri

08.24
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #659, August 17th 2026 Fabian Ritter reports that the memory model team for the AMDGPU backend has started work to formalize LLVM’s memory model for concurrent operations in Alloy .

08.17
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #658, August 10th 2026 Michal Paszkowski and colleagues propose the upstreaming of the PISA backend to LLVM . PISA (Portable Instruction Set Architecture) is a virtual ISA designed for new intel GPU generations. The backend uses GlobalISel exc

08.10
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #657, August 3rd 2026 Aiden Grossman posted an RFC on incrementally enabling the new pass manager for CodeGen , noting that some small targets like MSP430 and Lanai have been fully ported and x86 support is mature enough to bootstrap LLVM.

08.03
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #656, July 27th 2026 I didn’t spot any particular blog posts or news this time round. As always, feel free to drop me an email if there’s something you think I should include.

07.27
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #655, July 20th 2026 Another month has passed already and Bruno Cardoso Lopes has posted July’s progress report for ClangIR .

07.20
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #654, July 13th 2026 The call for papers for the toolchains track at the Linux Plumbers Conference remains open until 24th July .

07.13
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #653, July 6th 2026 The new issue of Communications of the ACM has a piece from Vikram S Adve and Chris Lattner on the LLVM compiler infrastructure, the impact it’s had, and the effect of the federal research funding it received .

07.06
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #652, June 29th 2026 Fangrui song wrote blog posts about optimising LLVM’s bump allocator , and a deep dive into SmallVector::push_back .

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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #651, June 22nd 2026 The call for proposals is now open for the 2026 US LLVM Developers' Meeting , closing on July 14th. The Dev Meeting itself will take place on October 26th-28th in Santa Clara. Additionally the set of workshops has been a

06.22
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #650, June 15th 2026 Herb Sutter shared a trip report from the June ISO C++ standards meeting in Brno .

06.15
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #649, June 8th 2026 Fangrui Song blogged about recent improvements to LLVM’s hash table implementations .

06.08
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #648, June 1st 2026 The Call for Workshops for the 2026 LLVM Developers' Meeting is out . Deadline June 3rd.

06.01
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #647, May 25th 2026 The Beijing LLVM meetup will take place on May 29th and feature two RISC-V focused talks.

05.25
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #646, May 18th 2026 The next Berlin LLVM meetup will take place on the 21st of May and will feature a talk from Bruno Caballero on targeting hardware accelerators from Java with MLIR.

05.18
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LLVM WeeklyLanguagesLLVM Weekly - #645, May 11th 2026 I’ve written up the recipes I use to build 32-bit RISC-V sysroots with Yocto for LLVM cross compilation and testing.

05.11