OT: NVIDIA releases source code of CUDA patches to LLVM Compiler (Was: Re: [Haifux] GPGPU talk part 3 postponed)

[Omer Zak]

On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 09:57 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:47:57 +0200
> Michael Vasiliev <lists at infoscav.net> wrote:
> 
> > For you, GPU enthusiasts: http://tinyurl.com/7elbk7w
> > 
> 
> first of all, this announcement (that NVIDIA releases the source code to the
> CUDA patches to the LLVM compiler) is not off-topic to either the Linux-IL or
> the Haifa Linux Club mailing lists. It may out-of-topic for the general
> announcement of the OpenCL lecture.

I beg to differ with you, Shlomif.
I think that the announcement is on-topic for Linux-IL.
Being unfamiliar with the LLVM compiler, I'll restrict my argument to
point out that the patches in question could be used (or at least
studied) by other Free Software projects.

--- Omer


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