Sasank's Blog

One of my biggest hit posts is how to call C functions from Lua. This feature is called as foreign function interface or FFI in short. In this post, I am going to show how to do FFI in Scheme. I will also add some wisdom to the mix :).FFI and Deep...

I’ve been working with Intel Arc GPUs for quite some time and want to document the driver and vendor library installation process in this tutorial. Unfortunately, installing these drivers neither is a single step nor are the packages small. My ult...

In the previous post, we spoke about an intermediate representation (IR) of code called single static assignment (SSA) and how variables are never overwritten in SSA. We saw LLVM IR – a very popular SSA IR for imperative languages – for different ...

Compilers are program translators – they translate program from one language to another while preserving the semantics. Usually the source language is higher level programming language like C++ or Java and the target language is machine level lang...

I was speaking to Prof. Veeresh Deshpande from IIT Bombay about optimal hardware system design for LLM inference. I explained to him how my ‘perfect’ hardware should have equal number of floating point operations per second (FLOPS) and memory band...