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Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21

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Compilers, interpreters & program analysisMachine learning & deep learningTech pioneers & interviews

What it is

Lex Fridman interviews Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, Clang and Swift, about compilers, Swift for TensorFlow, TPUs and ML accelerators. The talk covers how hardware and software meet to produce efficient code.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it as an interesting conversation with the creator of Swift and LLVM, especially for compilers and ML compilation.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting”

    Lex Fridman interview with Swift creator Chris Lattner

    mwattsun, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15”

  2. “Chris Lattner also has a very good episode on Lex Fridman”

    Earlier Chris Lattner episode on Lex Fridman show

    tony, 2025-09 · Recommendation · in “ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner”

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Topics: llvm, swift, mlir, tpu, chris lattner

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