Flang Fortran Compiler Set To Land Next Week For LLVM 10.0
As reported last month, Flang is expected to land in the LLVM 10.0 source tree ahead of the feature freeze for the v10.0 release due out in February. That landing is now scheduled to take place next week...
KDE's Kate Text Editor Seeing LSP Improvements For Better Code Support
With last month's release of KDE's Kate 19.12 text editor there was an initial plug-in for Language Server Protocol (LSP) support to better allow language-agnostic support for code syntax highlighting and other features. There were some issues in that initial implementation but with Kate 19.12.1 and beyond will be better support...
MLIR Lands In LLVM - Boosting LLVM For Heterogeneous Hardware, Machine Learning
Landing as a great Christmas present for LLVM developers interested in heterogeneous hardware compilation, TensorFlow and other machine learning use-cases was MLIR within the LLVM source tree...
Linux 5.5-rc4 Released Following A Light Christmas Week
Linus Torvalds just released the fourth weekly release candidate of Linux 5.5 following a fairly light week due to the Christmas holidays...
LLVM Clang Performance Matching The GCC Compiler On AMD Threadripper 3960X
Last week were some benchmarks showing LLVM Clang hitting ~96% the performance of GCC using Intel Ice Lake while now for the recently released Zen2-based AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X we are seeing results where overall LLVM Clang is now at performance parity to GCC.
Libre RISC-V Accelerator Secures 300k EUR In Grants, Still Undecided About The ISA
Libre RISC-V, the project aiming to create an open-source accelerator that would run a Vulkan software renderer in being an "open-source GPU" aiming for just 25 FPS @ 720p or 5~6 GFLOPS, has managed to secure 300k EUR in grants for their work...
Mesa 20.0's LLVMpipe Now Supports Running OpenCL On The CPU
Mesa's LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver has long been about running OpenGL on GPUs as a software fallback / debug path but as of this morning in Mesa 20.0-devel there is now the experimental ability of having OpenCL support making use of OpenCL "Clover" with NIR for CPU-based execution...
Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 20 Released To Ring In The New Year, Free Of 32-Bit Support
One of the few still maintained Linux distributions derived from Gentoo is Calculate Linux, which saw a new release today in preparing for the new year...
Google's IREE To Demonstrate Machine Learning Via Vulkan With MLIR
One of the new open-source compiler IR advancements of 2019 has been the Google/Tensorflow MLIR as the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation designed for machine learning models/frameworks. With Google's "IREE" project, MLIR can be accelerated by Vulkan and thus allowing machine learning via this high-performance graphics/compute API...
Purism Has Librem 5 Audio Routing Working, Other Software Progress
Purism has shared an update on their software work for the Librem 5 Linux smartphone over the course of last month...