Website | Users -- that is to say, projects and languages that use MLIR

MLIR is intended to be a hybrid IR which can support multiple different requirements in a unified infrastructure. For example, this includes:

MLIR is a common IR that also supports hardware specific operations. Thus, any investment into the infrastructure surrounding MLIR (e.g. the compiler passes that work on it) should yield good returns; many targets can use that infrastructure and will benefit from it.

MLIR is a powerful representation, but it also has non-goals. We do not try to support low level machine code generation algorithms (like register allocation and instruction scheduling). They are a better fit for lower level optimizers (such as LLVM). Also, we do not intend MLIR to be a source language that end-users would themselves write kernels in (analogous to CUDA C++). On the other hand, MLIR provides the backbone for representing any such DSL and integrating it in the ecosystem.


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Last modified 07 October 2024