youtu.be/aO93VU8QZbA Simple update, Chapter split, constructors, helper functions. Codex, tokens, costs. AI success stories, optimizing Python gc, PyPy. Making a VM, hardware mismatch, memory segments, mapping pages in VM memory, self modifying code , patching jitted targets
Cliff Click
Cliff Click
@cliffclick.bsky.social
Compiler researcher, mountain hiker, public speaking, long road trips, teaching, 20 patents, founder, father of 4.
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youtu.be/nWjTshirDhI - AI the good bad ugly. Tarjan SCC with AI. Price of memory, chip fabs, HBM. Steam OS for work. Simple Update, cyclic class init, Goose. Core update, ARM, RISC V backends. Pattern matching, tracking deps, C2 philosophy , global vars. AI, nnarrow tasks
youtu.be/yuU_usRj3JY Talk at REBASE. Peeps during parsing - less memory, faster compile. Inst sel, reg alloc, encodings. Lattice types, GCM. Anti-deps. JIT, deterministic builds & exec. Pointer orderin Simon update (non kernel platform apis). cyclic class defs
youtu.be/yU4oGuM2xf8 Simon on CORE unions/enums, and modules. Slow compiler, due to over-inlining on co-routine frames (52Meg stack frames???). Halo - heap alloc opt elision (static inline allocs on stack frames).
youtu.be/7U6im0HQXt8 Simple demo, Visual Compiler, visual optimizations. Forward refs, Escape node, Readonly in the type, inline, noinline, modules, linking with libc, calling foreign function. .o internals. Security flaws in java. Audit for nuclear power plant
youtu.be/g9aNXvnVf2k @burningman, grandkids, AI on Simple. AI making binarys, ML on JVM flags, magic numbers, more AI & compilers. Better GC roots, safe points. JRocket, XTC, stack alloc, tailrec, Koka ref cnt. ‘done’ for project. dwarf, gdb, debug options, Quxlang on JVM
CCC youtu.be/vyWFa7avywg AI usage in compilers. Major Simple update: Hello World one-liner. Simple Backend - codegen phases, instruction selection, RISC emulation, register handling. Virtual machine determinism
CCC for Aug 7, 2026 youtu.be/wipWVo3PYAQ @JCreteUnconf JVM target for Quxlang, syntax, 3-way cmp, inline decisions, precompile. Comparison on Clover, ‘is’ binding. Visibility, private/public, Locks, ranking locks. 54 Locks in (early)JVM, striped locks. “Final” prog lang.
CCC for July 14, 2026. youtu.be/F6fKY9xDI7Q ChatGPT making Java libs. AST lowering. Mac binaries. Qux lang hard parts. GC. Generating executables, relocations. Qux lang variance and unions. Benchmark ports, spiral expressions, variance , clover generics. Branch opts.
youtu.be/V4UlZdW5NpI Newer AI, mem model for Python, volatile, biased locking removal. AA/Simple memory model, LLVM and MSPC bugs. Defending resources in jar/exe. Git philosophy, cross thread access. Simple update, arrays, new, array init. Sea of Nodes as backend
youtu.be/fHYYLvtp0xk Grad school? Compiler classes, designing course, small community. Teaching Simple. Reg alloc strategies. Contributors. CCC T-shirts. Simple update, modules, ABI. Software licenses. XTC update. Simple BNF, roadmap, arrays, German & small strings opts
youtu.be/xP9rioNvErM Simple update, AI for grunt work, AI mimicking code style. Debug broken peepholes. SAT solvers. Strange peephole opts, exploring peep space. Linear logic IR, using many IR`s, war stories, large crash logs, coding styles, optimizer suggested refactoring
youtu.be/jwxfR7fj-UA CI fails, gradle, life beyond claude limits. Build tools, GPT for coding emacs. Local AI, what size, laptop, power. Simple and Quxlang updates, halting problem in const expr, inlining, embed, build.rs, and your compiler as an exec strategy
youtu.be/I8bk2mYWhSo Codex on Simple, type issues, sep compile, Modules, weak symbols, pc-rel addr, Linker, patching, ASRL. SIMD tokenizer, reg-alloc heuristics, Formal verify reg-alloc, generics. Making types simpler. Error msgs, generics. Unification, subtyping.
youtu.be/pCRNpQLhbZE Simple update, unresolved symbols in a separate compilation, grep vs AI, old server vs newer ones, AI on Simple, SoN graphics, Externs, main resolve. Max Update, Ruby, Python. Ruby speed vs Python speed, Ruby JIT, inlining vs outlining, power
youtu.be/Aj2oegogfbg Lazy init, self modifying code. Memory ordering, volatile, fences, Icache. Dynamic linking, LLVM limitations. Simple: .o, linking, relocating, exports, internal patching, more codegen. Simple phases. Switching to Sea of Nodes(SoN), why or why not?
youtu.be/CvcrrxUeSZw AI sandboxing. Simple restructure. Lists vs vectors, byte slices, CallGraph in SeaOfNodes, LTO, repl, separate compilation. Literals: dict, array, XTC. JSON f64, i64, NaN. Twitter war story. String formatting. Overloading, type classes, ambiguous defs
youtu.be/pBo2MISl7p0 Clang compile speed, constexpr interpreter. Recursive types & type inference. User peephole opts, heroic opts, semantics. Infinite loop opts, Collatz Conjecture, UB. Research vs production compiler
youtu.be/AzY1zqrewAk AST, Sea of Nodes, V8, C2, SSA-CFG. Ruby IR, opts in parser, inlining, value profiling, Ruby JIT in Rust. CFG & mem aliasing. V8 vs Maglev vs SofN, More & more inlining, LTO, LLVM. SofN - philosophy. Type lattice in pictures, deep dive type impl
Corrected video link for 8/May/2026 CCC: youtu.be/LNIqT-8moYw
youtu.be/hFWiUsG13ZA Simple update. NonBlocking hashmap, LRU, resizing. How-to YouTube. Sea-of-Nodes, phases, GCM, x86 ops, exec binary, risc5 & arm. LLVM JIT, C2, as a lib, PyPy; profile-vs-JIT. Simple design. Security risks for analysis in binary. Range types, lattice
youtu.be/7OY9phx8y34 Performance antipatterns talk by Cliff. Q & A, Lambdas, map, flatmap, IO bound , finals, Immutability, const class. CAS in Clojure. Ryan update on Quxlang
youtu.be/7OY9phx8y34 Performance antipatterns talk by Cliff. Q & A, Lambdas, map, flatmap, IO bound , finals, Immutability, const class. CAS in Clojure. Ryan update on Quxlang
youtu.be/wGuLumBrjI0 div by 0. GPU opts, tiling, Hilbert curves. New member. Reg alloc: debugging, LLVM, for jit tier 0,1,2. Hash speed, improvements. Faster IRs, type inference. FP standards; LLM training. SoN peephole opts, determinism, Icache. JDK effort man-years
youtu.be/7QWHRY07W2U Hashmap perf, concurrent vs nonblocking, choosing your metric. Performance antipatterns (presentation), logging, cost of traces. Exceptions, error codes, stack traces in distributed system, deadlines,exceptions from other threads
youtu.be/20z1TDqST5k Compiling regexs, Jury duty. LinkedIn talk - for Simple, loading code. Growing a Language. Operator overloading, for/while as functions, overload resolution, c++ templates, python, polymorphism. Back to H-M, implicit conversions, Immutable by default
youtu.be/c2uCdPzRy1w Vibe coding, AI cheating, Simple philosophy, no commit, NBHM, C2/C++/Python perf, Faster C++ compiler. Interviews. PCs & DRAM prices. Graph viewers, Slow & broken build systems.
youtu.be/wTlwnDOQWvQ Compiler driver as a graph; copy on write, modules, classes, lexing, EBNF, parser gens vs recursive decent; ambiguity; oper overload & oper parse; chained opers. Compilers & Type theory, opts, DCE, eval, typescript vs tree shaking vs dyn class load.
youtu.be/PgcitUngWEk Simple update, Graph debugger (qux, S-of-N), Storage types, tagged/untagged unions, Constexpr, partial eval, AST walking. Sea of Nodes eval vs Tier 0 JIT. NonBlockingHashMap design vs caches, hashCode, attack against
youtu.be/E-M2Ccw3Kfw Super light C++ stdlib. Keybindings & cross-OS muscle memory. AIs and their uses. Good CLI tools. VCS. Win 11 bashing. Levo editor story. Simple update - classless main execution, static.
youtu.be/M3se5e9ScAs Weirdness budget, fine line scripting vs compiled; Church vs Curry Types; debug builds; filename tags; std lib: Java vs NodeJS vs Go. Hashgraph dependencies; type eraser; AA and Simple status, loading auto imports, class paths
youtu.be/I1cdM-K7WIw Coffee Compiler Club - IR and type representations; ptr-pairs (type classes) vs embedded types ptr (java style). LLVM vs C2 object description. Type aliasing & compiler opts. Whole lotta state-of-the-AI conversation
youtu.be/zZxC4qiMFxA Hashgraph Interpreter, Simple update. Inko update. Static html in Inko, actor model, atomics. Http spec, parsing headers via SIMD, vectorization, SSE, AVX. Supporting vectorization any language. Clover lang. Generics and fast typing
youtu.be/aN8-fn5sXME Etherium interp, best? coding practices, getters, setters. Locking, old code in prod. Byzantine vs Paxos. unspec'd JSON, CSV. VMs, Cloud, Erlang, XTC, CPS, hierarchical timewheel. Interactive, gas,quotas. Concurrency, gradle. CI/CD, cbuild demo. comptime, metaprogramming
youtu.be/c1idAa4vV54 Concurrent hashmap, malloc vs GC vs thread-local, CAS, contention, atomics, arenas, pools. Capabilities, AI search vs grep. Channels vs mutex vs coroutines vs locks vs fork-join vs NBHM. Hotswap in HS, stack editing , unwinding, dynamic code loading
youtu.be/AdshEEV_ups Circuit design, Verilog, VHDL, build tools, packaging for C,C++. BitBlit. pdf viewers. Interpreters, allocation, inlining, simulated annealing. AI compiler opts. Logging, metrics, histograms, debugging info. Atomics, mutex, CAS, threads, JNI
youtu.be/THGQWjxk0zU Rust borrow checker co/contra variant, handles. Mojo lifetimes. Optimizing a dataflow graph, speedup Sea of Nodes. Compiler & IR design choices, SSA. LLVM, Frontends, Functional programing. Scheduler, map implementation, mutexes, non-blocking, threads
youtu.be/k1oMyH9jljA CCC Concurrency, race conditions, graph traversal, futures. Simple update, static global data, separate compile, compile-time exec, std lib, errors. Chapter 25, elf writer, in-mem linking & exec. War stories. Hashgraph. Ryan bug fix, conc hashmap
youtu.be/nyOR3H9txP4 No google emails, hashgraph, smart contracts, GC, Ethereum. Foreign langs and programming. Build systems, deterministic build, concurrent builds, mail providers.
youtu.be/CCwlsngNIHo Simple Modules; boundaries for compilation. Timestamps vs CRC in .o files; standard lib; version collision. Intel assembly, gcc and other compilers. Simon update on CORE. Libc free programs, libc usefulness, atomics, time libs
youtu.be/MFdRccQ1y6M Kefir C17/C23 independent C compiler by Jevgenij Protopopov; Q&A. Verification, quickcheck, determinism, inlining , unrolling, validating peepholes, Graph coloring register allocator, Advent of code, Simple modules
youtu.be/Uo2237rz8-A More C++ slowness, debug mode, templates. Always-on logging, vs tracing, in prod. Radon. Ruby gc crashing, LLM vibe coding. Cerebras chip, Pixar, H100, AI chips, cooling. Smart contract ETH interpreter. MLIR, inlining, dialects. Simple update
youtu.be/Z3OJ0K5fReA C++ Compile times. Ethereum byte code and runtime. Java and exceptions; more C++ compile times. Fat binaries & code portability. Language design around memory safety
youtu.be/iN2XUUqw1YE Why LLVM is slow; inst select, one pass, unrolling. gcc vs clang. PGO. Array init IR, try catch finally, throws, unwind tables, deopt, exceptional control flow. interior pointers. Stack unwinding vs branching checks
youtu.be/uiDkAE_kt5c CCC Simple modules, no imports, <clinit> ordering. Simple ref types nullability, val/var, default init/clinit. Compiletime eval, constexpr, rmw vs atomic vs ordering.
youtu.be/myHzMUsHuzE New endeavors. Class def, static, clinit, init, singletons, structural vs nomative typing. Match/switch syntax, class instances, overloading oper (). Overloading + for float, mixing float and decimals, 4bit floats, AI compilers
youtu.be/NKzdKoRPOZA C++ code explosion, destructors, finalizers, lifetimes, scopes. Value vs Ref semantics vs references. Hylo value semantics with no copy on write. Ben update parser generator.