LLVM optimizes power sums, such as int sum(int count) { int result = 0; for (int j = 0; j < count; ++j) result += j*j; return...

Jonathan Blow of “The Witness” fame likes to talk about just typing the obvious code first. Usually it will turnout to be fast enough. If it doesn’t, you c...

Niebloids in range-v3 and other libraries has successfully demonstrated its prowess in avoiding ADL screwups while enabling those extension points of the same manner. But it’s not for all extension point APIs: there are a few weaknesses in

Writing good documentation is hard. Tools can’t solve this problem in themselves, but they can ease the pain. This post will show you how to use Sphinx to generate attractive, functional documentation for C++ libraries, supplied with information from Doxygen.…

Back in 2016, I started a side project to reverse engineer the game Duke Nukem II and build an open source reimplementation of its engine from scratch – called Rigel Engine (Check it out on GitHub)…

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This week I was happy to join Rob Irving and Jason Turner on their great CppCast podcast. I chose “Simplifying C++” as the theme, because all of the active work I’ve chosen to do …

Each year, Trail of Bits runs a month-long winter internship aka “winternship” program. This year we were happy to host 4 winterns who contributed to 3 projects. This project comes from Carson Harmon, a new graduate from Purdue interested in compilers and…

Lock-free programming is a challenge, not just because of the complexity of the task itself, but because of how difficult it can be to penetrate the subject in the first place. I …

The TL;DR - after a conversation at EuroLLVM with Steve Canon about how LLVM is missing scalar evolution analysis for floating-point, I’ve spent some spare time hacking on a new LLVM analysis pass - fpscev (Floating-Point SCalar EVolution) - available here…