A PoC-ish Trick: LLVM IR Generation with Ruby

A Lightning Talk at RubyConf 2016

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1. A PoC-ish Trick: LLVM IR Generation with Ruby A Lightning Talk at RubyConf 2016 Kei Sawada (@remore)
3. a modern, fast, and open source language for data science and technical computing
4. Julia is 4 years old young Good performance, as fast as C Dynamic typing Julia has Capability to call C functions directly without wrappers or special APIs a compiler that used LLVM to translate Julia programs into ef cient executable code
5. In short,
6. Write some Julia code then you will get LLVM IR without hassle
7. debussy:~ guest$ julia _ _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computin (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.o _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help. | | | | | | |/ _` | | | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.4.6 (2016-06-19 17:16 UTC) _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | |__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin15.5.0 julia>
8. debussy:~ guest$ julia _ _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computin (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.o _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help. | | | | | | |/ _` | | | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.4.6 (2016-06-19 17:16 UTC) _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | |__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin15.5.0 julia> function hello() "rubyconf" end hello (generic function with 1 method) julia>
9. debussy:~ guest$ julia _ _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computin (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.o _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help. | | | | | | |/ _` | | | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.4.6 (2016-06-19 17:16 UTC) _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | |__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin15.5.0 julia> function hello() "rubyconf" end hello (generic function with 1 method) julia> hello() "rubyconf" julia>
10. julia> code_llvm(hello, ()) define %jl_value_t* @julia_hello_21549() { top: ret %jl_value_t* inttoptr (i64 4447575696 to %jl_value_t*) } julia>
11. julia> code_llvm(hello, ()) define %jl_value_t* @julia_hello_21549() { top: ret %jl_value_t* inttoptr (i64 4447575696 to %jl_value_t*) } julia> code_native(hello, ()) .section __TEXT,__text,regular,pure_instructions Filename: none Source line: 2 pushq %rbp movq %rsp, %rbp movabsq $4447575696, %rax ## imm = 0x109189E90 Source line: 2 popq %rbp ret julia>
12. OK Julia is a thing But we are in
14. What if
15. You can write some Ruby code which can be translated into Julia where you can get LLVM IR easily?
16. Ruby -> Julia -> LLVM IR
18. Julializer Allow you to convert your arbitrary Ruby code into Julia code
19. Time to DEMO!
20. For more examples and attempts, check out: github.com/remore/julializer github.com/remore/virtual_module Thanks!