Building LLVM
This is where your journey as a backend developer starts: you will learn how to build the core LLVM project.
Instead of just dropping a bunch of commands for you to run (we will do some of that too, we promise), you will discover the most relevant knobs that you can use to tailor the build process to your needs.
We believe this is important knowledge to gain as it will help you optimize your development process and increase your productivity by focusing on what you need to build/run for your use cases.
To set the context, the core LLVM project contains all the necessary pieces to build an optimizing backend from LLVM IR down to assembly code/an object file for 20+ different architectures. This is a lot of code and chances are that you do not care about all these architectures. Therefore, at the very least, learning how to build only the ones you care about will save you compile time and down the road will improve your development speed.
