llvm-py: Writing Compilers Using Python

The llvm-py library provides Python bindings for LLVM. The presenter will give an overview of LLVM and llvm-py, and how the latter can be used to create industrial-strength compilers (including JIT) in pure Python. Both LLVM and llvm-py are available in Ubuntu (10.04).

• LLVM
  • what is LLVM?
  • what can it be used for?
• llvm-py
  • what is llvm-py?
  • how to get it, install it and use it, get help
  • what can it be used for?
• Questions

Mahadevan is an open source developer by choice and a software architect by profession. He is the author of the open source projects llvm-py (Python bindings for LLVM, http://www.mdevan.org/llvm-py/) and The Guide (an outliner software, http://www.mdevan.org/theguide/). He lives and works in Bangalore.

Home page: http://www.mdevan.org/