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Cemalcan's avatar

If you start a compilers youtube channel that would be great I guess, maybe not for you but other people who seeks this area. I wouldnt say you can get million views btw, good luck with your new job

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vincent huang's avatar

congrats on getting a job

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Rona Wang's avatar

thank you vincent

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Wemi Moyela's avatar

Because of your passion I have a much better appreciation for compilers now.

Congratulations!

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Yong Zheng-Xin (Yong)'s avatar

Congrats on the job and I can attest to how brutally competitive the job search is right now.

Thank you for sharing your experience!

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Rona Wang's avatar

it’s tough out here 🥲 thanks for reading!

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jibal jibal's avatar

Some of your instances of "latter" should be "former". :-)

P.S. You made it to the front page of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45851495

(Some of the comments are stupidly unpleasant ... just skip over those.)

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Code Like A Girl's avatar

Congrats on the Job!!! It sounds very interesting!

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Rona Wang's avatar

thank you!

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Agent Cyberis's avatar

Congrats. I'm sure those jobs are few and far between but that's where the fun starts. Getting a high level language to Assembly (one of my favorite languages) is fascinating. Optimization is easy, but covering either more general cases in a unique and performant way, or thinking through really esoteric corner cases is what makes the brain tingle. At least when writing compilers as a hobby. I would love to hear more about what your focus is in a full time job and what particular problems you enjoy most.

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Tyler Durden's avatar

Your hot take on auto-vectorisation and its

consequences? What's your take on aggressive autoparallelization?

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Aditya Gupta's avatar

Banger excerpt

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Enoch Lau's avatar

congrats! i’d really like to work with compilers too although i probably couldnt articulate why in an interview

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