Alex Bradbury | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Alex Bradbury

Alex Bradbury

At Igalia since March 2022.

Cambridge (UK)

POSTS

Apr 10, 2023

Updating Wren's benchmarks

Wren is a “small, fast, class-based, concurrent scripting language”, originally designed by Bob Nystrom (who you might recognise as the author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters. It’s a...

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Apr 10, 2023

2023Q2 week log

I tend to keep quite a lot of notes on the development related (sometimes at work, sometimes not) I do on a week-by-week basis, and thought it might be fun...

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Mar 18, 2023

What's new for RISC-V in LLVM 16

LLVM 16.0.0 was just released today, and as I did for LLVM 15, I wanted to highlight some of the RISC-V specific changes and improvements. This is very much a...

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Mar 3, 2023

Commercially available RISC-V silicon

The RISC-V instruction set architecture has seen huge excitement and growth in recent years (10B cores estimated to have shipped as of Dec 2022) and I’ve been keeping very busy...

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Tweets

Neat initiative from David Spickett to collate tips on debugging LLDB itself https://discourse.llvm.org/t/lets-add-some-documentation-about-how-to-debug-lldb-itself/72453

More details on recent RISC-V Debian progress from my @igalia colleague Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/07/msg00003.html

My colleague Job Noorman has written up a great blog post about his work at @igalia to enable RISC-V support...

Join me at #RISCVSummiteurope next week in Barcelona where I’ll be delivering an invited keynote “Developments in LLVM-based toolchains and...

Commits

[LLVM] [VE] Add TargetParser to CMakeLists.txt for VE unittest

[LLVM] [libc++][test] Cover RISC-V in string.capacity test

[LLVM] [LegalizeTypes][NFC] Combine ExpandIntOp_{S,U}INT_TO_FP to ExpandIntO…

[LLVM] [LegalizeTypes][NFC] Combine ExpandIntRes_FP_TO_{S,U}INT to ExpandInt…