Back to work

Ah, my week-long summer vacation is now over. I mostly spent the time in a friend's summer cottage in Sysmä and in the beautiful archipelago of Sipoo. Last two days I was in Porvoo. Vacation reading included works from Hesse and Solzhenitsyn, but I especially want to raise Erlend Loe's Naive, Super that I fell in love with when sitting in a bus.

As for work, I'm now familiar with LLVM optimization pass architecture and implementation. It all feels intuitive. On the negative side, C++ frequently demonstrates its clumsiness in basic tasks. Also, the LLVM API is poorly documented, so I constantly find myself grepping (actually, ack'ing) around the LLVM tree and reading code rather than the doxygen (huh) generated API. However, all in all I'm definitely thankful for LLVM.org/docs.