python-llvmlite

Lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality

A lightweight LLVM python binding for writing JIT compilers The old llvmpy binding exposes a lot of LLVM APIs but the mapping of C++-style memory management to Python is error prone. Numba_ and many JIT compilers do not need a full LLVM API. Only the IR builder, optimizer, and JIT compiler APIs are necessary. llvmlite is a project originally tailored for Numba's needs, using the following approach: * A small C wrapper around the parts of the LLVM C++ API we need that are not already exposed by the LLVM C API. * A ctypes Python wrapper around the C API. * A pure Python implementation of the subset of the LLVM IR builder that we need for Numba.