LLVM Weekly - #166, Mar 6th 2017

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LLVM 4.0.0-rc3 has now been tagged.

Timothy Jones has written up a blog post describing his recent CGO paper (with Sam Ainsworth). This describes software prefetching for indirect memory accesses, which was of course added using a new LLVM pass.

The next LLVM Zurich Social is will be taking place on Thursday, March 9th at 7pm. Please register if you would like to attend. Hans Pabst will be delivering a talk on LIBXSMM.

The talk from the last LLVM social in Berlin was recorded and is now available online. Stanislav Pankevich gave the talk 'Mull meets Rust', about mutation testing in Rust.

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