Amir
@disruptnhandlr
Compiler engineer obsessed with compute efficiency: LLVM BOLT, Meta • ex CPU R&D, Intel • МФТИ
Anschluss was followed by a war. The war ended with Nuremberg for war criminals. The nation was split but the country got Adenauer who rebuilt it and set it up for peace.
BOLT for ARM just got more practical: the profile reader now supports parsing ARM SPE branch events: github.com/llvm/llvm-proj… This opens the door to using sampled branch profile as SPE is available in the currently shipping CPUs (v8.2+).
Intel, the home of Moore's Law, for the first time in history, is evaluating if it will continue at the leading edge. From its 10-Q "However, if we are unable to secure a significant external customer and meet important customer milestones for Intel 14A, we face the prospect…
Statements like "A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day" probably seems a lot more exciting until you realize that this is about 1.5 golf courses, and there's 17,000 golf courses in the US. Not saying ...
#OTD July 18, 1968: @intel was founded. 57 years later, the company's original single-page business plan, typed up by Robert Noyce himself still accurately describes its business. Happy Birthday Intel!
1. Трое моих одноклассников сидели за убийство, разбой. Один пошел в ЧВК Вагнер, был убит в Украине. 2. Я работал с архитекторами в Интеле, был в команде у Бабаяна, прошел собесы в НВ (2х) и у архитектора проц в айфоне. Работаю с разработчиками ядра, llvm, zstd, jemalloc.
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Meta has been using Intel PT for debugging crashes and latency analysis since at least 2021, and has even submitted lldb PT support! engineering.fb.com/2021/04/27/dev…
Joel Pobar, poached by Zuckerberg, was previously at Facebook and worked on HHVM. He hired my current TL into the team, so it's two handshakes from me to him.
AsiaLLVM talk about optimizing AArch64 Linux kernel is now up youtube.com/watch?v=5ympgo…