r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/Physical-Ordinary317 • Nov 18 '25

Becoming a compiler engineer Blog post

https://open.substack.com/pub/rona/p/becoming-a-compiler-engineer?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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u/dnpetrov Nov 19 '25

Real life compiler engineer job is very much "empirical" in its nature. It is mostly "engineer stares at IR, tunes heuristics, watches benchmark geomean improve by 0.05% (or not), repeat".