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An LLM wrote a near-compliant C compiler in 2 weekends that out-optimizes the commercial ones

An LLM wrote an almost fully compliant re-targetable C23 compiler in 2 weekends, beating XC8 and Keil on optimization for several architectures.

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  1. An LLM writes an almost fully compliant re-targetable compiler in 2 weekends
  2. Beating the commercial compilers on optimization for several architectures

Why it’s worth knowing

Two weekends against compiler teams' years is the number to sit with.

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Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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