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Friday, November 4 • 12:00pm - 12:45pm
Shipping Software as LLVM IR

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Many members of the LLVM community from both industry and academia
are working towards addressing an important problem:
shipping software as LLVM IR for more flexible analysis and transformation.
Examples of these efforts include technologies such as `-fembed-bitcode`,
ThinLTO, and WLLVM.

We propose a BoF for these parties and all interested to
meet and discuss the benefits and technical challenges involved,
learn about each others' goals and use-cases, and to identify
collaboration opportunities across these overlapping projects.

Our interest:
We at UIUC are developing a system called "ALLVM" in which
all components are represented as LLVM IR first and
foremost. Our goal is to explore the potential benefits of
the approach for improving performance, strengthening security,
and simplifying failure diagnosis for production code.
A second goal is to make ALLVM available widely as a platform for 
research. As part of this ongoing project we are
developing and automating the construction of complete
LLVM-based representations of real-world software, as well
as building an ecosystem of supporting tools.

Speakers
avatar for Will Dietz

Will Dietz

Grad Student, UIUC


Friday November 4, 2016 12:00pm - 12:45pm PDT
3 - BoF (Rm LL21CD)