About the Authors

Suyog Sarda is a professional software engineer and an open source enthusiast. He focuses on compiler development and compiler tools. He is an active contributor to the LLVM open source community. Suyog was also involved in code performance improvements for the ARM and X86 architectures. He has been a part of the compiler team for the Tizen project. His interest in compiler development lies more in code optimization and vectorization.

Previously, he has authored a book on LLVM, titled LLVM Cookbook by Packt Publishing.

Apart from compilers, Suyog is also interested in Linux Kernel Development. He has published a technical paper titled Secure Co-resident Virtualization in Multicore Systems by VM Pinning and Page Coloring at the IEEE Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing, Technologies, Applications, and Management at the Birla Institute of Technology, Dubai. He has earned a bachelor's degree in computer technology from the College of Engineering, Pune, India.

I would like to thank my family and friends for encouraging me to write this book. I am thankful to my co-author and reviewers who did a tremendous job of refining the contents. I would also like to thank the LLVM open source community for always being helpful. It has been a great experience to interact with the community. It is amazing to see how fast LLVM has evolved.

Mayur Pandey is a professional software engineer and open source enthusiast focused on compiler development and tools. He is an active contributor to the LLVM open source community. He has been a part of the compiler team for the Tizen project and has hands-on experience of other proprietary compilers.

He has earned a bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India. Currently, he lives in Bengaluru, India.

I would like to thank my family and friends who made it possible for me to complete the book by taking care of my other commitments, and who have always being encouraging.