NI LabVIEW Compiler: Under the Hood

[crelf]

There was a short discussion after yesterday's presentation (great job Dan, btw!) regarding LabVIEW's compiling process and use of intermediate languages (specifically Dataflow Intermediate Representation (DFIR) and Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM)). As promised, here's a look under the hood of LabVIEW compliation process: http://www.ni.com/white-paper/11472/en/

Take particular note that the DFIR graph decouples the editor from the compiler representation.

[Hooovahh]

My summary of that white paper: Trust the compiler, unless you have a reason not to.

[crelf]

Hooovahh wrote:

Trust the compiler, unless you have a reason not to.

Ha! True, true. But imagine that, since DFIR does decoupling, there's an opportunity for other development environments that exist, and those that we haven't imagined yet, to write "LabVIEW" code.