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CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes”

CppCon · talk · Watch on YouTube

Compilers, interpreters & program analysisC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesCloud, DevOps & reliability

What it is

Matt Godbolt tells the story of Compiler Explorer, from a hacky basement server to a cloud-scaled service handling tens of thousands of daily requests. He also shows its features and how it is built.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as the source on how Compiler Explorer began and for its lesser-known features like the machine code analyzer.

  • 2 people recommended it
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What HN commenters said

  1. “There's a few nice hidden features presented in Matt Godbolt's talk here”

    Matt Godbolt presents hidden features of Compiler Explorer.

    flohofwoe, 2021-03 · Recommendation · in “How to Read Assembly Language”

  2. “a cool feature he presented is the integrated LLVM Machine Code Analyser tool”

    Shows the LLVM machine code analyzer timeline and resource views inside Compiler Explorer.

    jiggawatts, 2021-07 · Recommendation · in “Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: matt godbolt, compiler explorer, c++, assembly, cloud scaling

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