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A lightweight LLVM python binding for writing JIT compilers

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2016-07-03 · latest 2026-10-28

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  1. …not technically a fork, it's a standalone build of vanilla LLVM (ok, there are a couple patches: https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/tree/main/conda-recipes ). > It won't even try to work with the system LLVM and insists on installing a huge…
    comment by pitrou · 2026-10-28 · in Python's experimental JIT to be removed
  2. Numba the Python library is only just getting around to support LLVM 9. https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/523
    comment by tveita · 2020-03-24 · in LLVM 10.0
  3. …the github page for llvmpy ( https://github.com/llvmpy/llvmpy ) recommends to use llvmlite ( https://github.com/numba/llvmlite ) instead. See also http://llvmlite.pydata.org/en/latest/user-guide/index.html and in the context of the…
    comment by gjvc · 2019-10-17 · in Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (2015)
  4. The article is from 2015. Many of the jits (eg numba) have moved to llvmlite. https://github.com/numba/llvmlite
    comment by hsaliak · 2019-10-16 · in Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (2015)
  5. It does and this can be done sometimes automatically by Numba/LLVM https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/270
    comment by marmaduke · 2017-09-21 · in Numba: High-Performance Python with CUDA Acceleration
  6. The C kernel I've written here https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/270 is contrived but the structure resembles code I maintain related to differential equation integration. Autovec provides a very nice speed up for very little effort.
    comment by marmaduke · 2017-06-04 · in Google removes SIMD.js support from Chromium