LLVM Weekly - #162, Feb 6th 2017

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News and articles from around the web

The Quarkslab blog has a new article about improving the performance of global dead code elimination.

Pyston, the LLVM-based JIT for Python has just seen a new release, 0.6.1. Sadly, with Dropbox no longer providing engineering time for the project, its future is in doubt.

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