Talks
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What This Website Contains
This research library combines LLVM Developers' Meeting talks, LLVM-related research papers, LLVM Project Blog posts, wrapped LLVM/Clang/LLDB documentation, and a merged people index. It is designed for both quick lookup and cross-reference research workflows. Docs support currently includes local wrapped docs landing/search routing, source attribution, and unified search indexing alongside talks/papers/blogs. The library updates nightly at 00:00 UTC.
Papers
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People
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LLVM Developers' Meetings
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Talk Types Explained
Talks are labeled with normalized type badges. These same colors and styles are used throughout the library:
Keynote
Highlighted speakers on topics with wide appeal for the LLVM and compiler community.
Technical Talks
These 20 minute talks cover all topics from core infrastructure, to projects using LLVM’s infrastructure. Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions and take away technical information that could be pertinent to their project or general interest.
Tutorials
Tutorials are 40-50 minute sessions that dive down deep into a technical topic. Expect in-depth examples and explanations.
Panels
Discussions amongst a group of experts on a topic and guided by audience questions and interests.
Quick Talks
Slightly longer than a lightning talk, these 10 minute talks are a quick dive into a topic.
Lightning Talks
These are fast 5 minute talks that give you a taste of a project or topic. Attendees will hear a wide range of topics and probably leave wanting to learn more.
Student Technical Talk
Students present their research using LLVM or related subproject. These are usually 15 minute technical presentations with Q&A.
LLVM Foundation
Foundation updates and board-level community sessions focused on project support, stewardship, and direction.
BoF (Birds of Feather)
Informal gatherings where individuals with a common interest meet to discuss a specific topic.
Poster
Poster-format research presentations, often exploratory or early-stage work.
Workshop
Hands-on or collaborative sessions with practical exercises and applied workflows.
Other
Sessions that do not map cleanly to the categories above.
Content Tags and Colors
Beyond talk type badges, the library also uses content tags to distinguish cross-source material:
Paper
Marks research publications and paper metadata indexed in the Papers section and Search All.
Blog
Marks LLVM Project Blog entries mirrored from llvm-www-blog with full post content and source links.
Docs
Marks wrapped documentation updates from LLVM Core, Clang, and LLDB docs sources, with local navigation and upstream links.
Talk entries use one of the talk-type badges above; papers, blogs, and docs use content-type badges.
How Universal Search Works
- Each main page has one search bar, and suggestions are grouped by Key Topics, Speakers + Authors, Talk Titles, Paper + Blog Titles, and Docs Pages.
- Selecting a suggestion can keep you on the current page (local filtering), route you to All Work for speaker/topic rollups, or open Search All for free-text cross-library ranking.
- Search All defaults to All, with one-click scope pivots to Talks, Papers, Blogs, or Docs while preserving your query.
- If you press
Enteron free text, the query is committed immediately. Depending on intent, it either filters locally or opens Search All. - Keyboard support:
/focuses search,Arrow Up/Downnavigates suggestions,Esccloses the suggestion list.
How to Use All Features
- Start broad: use Search All for free-text queries, or All Work for speaker/topic rollups.
- Narrow with filters: Talks supports key topics, type, year, event, and resources; Papers supports key topics, type, year, and author targeting.
- Use sort + layout controls: switch between relevance, chronology, citations, and compact/card views where available.
- Use docs wrappers: open the Docs section to jump into LLVM Core, Clang, or LLDB docs with local routing and source-home links.
- Pivot through People: open a person profile card to jump into their talks, papers, or global results.
- Browse by event history: use Events to inspect each LLVM Developers' Meeting edition.
- Open detail pages: talk and paper pages include abstracts (or full blog content), structured fields, and source links.
- Share reproducible views: active filters and searches are encoded in the URL so links preserve context.
How This Database Is Built
- Talks: synchronized from public
llvm-www/devmtgpages intodevmtg/events/*.json, then normalized to a consistent schema (IDs, meeting fields, speakers, slides/video links, categories, tags). - Papers: combined from LLVM publications (
llvm.org/pubs) and OpenAlex discovery results that match LLVM-focused keywords/subprojects and known library contributors. - Blogs: synchronized from
llvm/llvm-blog-www, published in a dedicated Blogs section with full content and source links, and indexed alongside papers/talks/docs in search. - Docs: synchronized from
llvm/llvm-projectdocs paths into local wrapped docs roots (docs/,docs/clang/,docs/lldb/), then re-indexed for in-library docs search and global discoverability. - People: derived from talk speakers and paper authors, then merged across name variants to reduce duplicates.
- Updates: generated from content deltas and shown newest-first, with links to in-library talk/paper/blog/docs pages.
- Refresh cadence: automated sync jobs run nightly at 00:00 UTC, so new upstream changes may appear later here.
- Scope and limits: all indexed material is public; this site is a research index and does not replace canonical LLVM project sources.
- Use official sources for authoritative status: LLVM documentation and the llvm/llvm-project repository should be treated as primary references.
- Meetings: for official meeting announcements and schedules, use the LLVM Developers' Meeting archive.