LLVM binding layer—llvmlite.binding

The llvmlite.binding module provides classes to interact with functionalities of the LLVM library. Generally, they closely mirror concepts of the C++ API. Only a small subset of the LLVM API is mirrored: those parts that have proven useful to implement Numba’s JIT compiler.

• Initialization and finalization
• Dynamic libraries and symbols
• Target information
• Context
• Modules
• Value references
• Type references
• Execution engine
• Object file
• Optimization passes
• Analysis utilities
• Pass Timings
• Misc
• Example—compiling a simple function