A new LLVM patch has added V_FMA_F32, a 3-operand fused multiply-add (FMA instruction) and introduced the VOPD3 instruction ...

The developers behind LLVM, the open-source framework for building cross-platform compilers, have unveiled LLVM 7. The new release arrives right on schedule as part of the project’s cadence of major ...

Have you ever wanted to analyze or mutate some C or C++ code? You can do some simple pattern matching with regular expressions, but there’s always some special case or another that will break your ...

The development landscape is ripe with new languages and improvements on existing ones. Mozilla’s Rust, Apple’s Swift, Kotlin from JetBrains, and the experimental Python variant Mojo (and many others) ...

Internal software documentation from the LLVM compiler project recently added two identifiers, GFX1171 and GFX1172, marking ...

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SproutCore, profiled earlier this week, isn't the only big news spill out from the top secret WWDC conference due to Apple's embrace of open source sharing. Another future technology featured by the ...

A fresh LLVM patch for gfx1310, AMD’s RDNA 5 graphics architecture, points to “Dual Issue” being pushed harder to allow two ops to land in one clock cycle. The big idea is to broaden the instruction ...

An AMD “GFX13” identifier has resurfaced in open-source tooling after a long period of little to no public movement, and this time it shows up where GPU enablement often begins: the LLVM compiler ...