Educational compiler videos (first try)

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Last year, I got a grant from the Better Scientific Software (BSSw) to produce education videos “about compilers”. While it took me a long time, and the results can certainly be improved, I am happy that the first video is finally online:
Looking at Compilers - No 1 - Optimization Levels

In the first few videos I will mostly look at the user side, how to interact with the compiler. However, even there might be some interesting insights for new compiler enthusiasts. I hope to produce videos for LLVM developers too, and maybe others are encouraged to do the same :slight_smile: .

Two more videos should be released shortly: First, one that briefly looks at -march=native, and then the “what’s a compiler” introduction. I have started on scripts for more, incl. “compiler remarks”, “time and stats”, “OpenMP offload”, and “reporting compiler bugs”.

I’d appreciate feedback on video #1, and if people want to help, in any way, please let me know.

~ J

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Looking at Compilers - No 2 - -march=native

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Thanks for putting these together! Only suggestion I could think of would be larger terminal text

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This is pretty cool Johannes, kudos on the effort!

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Johannes, great idea!

May I suggest to zoom in your terminal window in future installments? While your explanations are very clear, it would be better to have some visual support as well.

Andrey

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Nice video Johannes, I didn’t know -march can make such a big difference! Looking forward to your following videos!