Behind the Burst Compiler

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Here's a video of the author's "Deep Dive into the Burst Compiler" talk from Unite LA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkM6zEGFhDY

this is interesting - does anyone have a link to the repo

No repo, this is part of Unity.

The Burst compiler is closed source. However, if you import the Burst package [1] into your Unity project, you can see most of the source using ILSpy [2].

In your project, see the directory: "Library/PackageCache/com.unity.burst@<package-version-here>/.Runtime". The DLLs you'll want to inspect are: "Burst.Backend.dll", "Burst.Compiler.IL.dll", "burst-llvm.dll", "Smash.dll" and possibly the "Cecil" DLLs.

1. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.burst@1.0/manual...

2. https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy

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