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Rachit Nigam

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I build programming languages and compilers to make it easy to design and use specialized hardware. My work is driven by the need to answer fundamental questions that about hardware–software systems and using the answers to build elegant systems. My PhD answered three such questions:

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Dear sir, you have built a compiler

I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler. I know you wanted a “simple prototype” that would just add that one feature to your programming model. You said that “SSA is an overkill” and “it’s just way too much infrastructure to maintain for a simple task” and yet, six months later, you have pile of…