# FYI: new LLVM IR for parallelism

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fyi-new-llvm-ir-for-parallelism/1951>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [February 7, 2017, 7:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fyi-new-llvm-ir-for-parallelism/1951 "2017-02-07T07:55:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 7:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fyi-new-llvm-ir-for-parallelism/1951/1 "2017-02-07T07:55:15Z")

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Hi,  
I found this article yesterday. I’m just posting the link here because I thought it might be interesting for julia threading in a future version as a compiler optimization.

> **[MIT Extended LLVM IR to Enable Better Optimization of Parallel Programs](https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/02/mit-llvm-parallel-programs/)**
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> Researchers at MIT have been working on a fork of LLVM to explore a new approach to optimizing parallel code by embedding fork-join parallelism directly into the compiler’s intermediate representation (IR). This, the researchers maintain, makes it...