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Intel ISPC 1.26 Compiler Delivers Improved ARM Support
Intel's ISPC project as the Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as this C language variant for Single Program, Multiple Data programming on CPUs and GPUs is out with a new release.
Intel ISPC focuses on C-based SPMD programming traditionally for their range of CPUs and GPUs and being able to efficiently exploit features like AVX2 and AVX-512. Intel ISPC 1.26 for ARM also introduces new double-pumped targets of neon-i16x16 and neon-i8x32, dot product operations are now supported using native ARM instructions, and the ARMv8 performance is said to be around 13% faster than prior ISPC releases. ISPC 1.26 also brings some language enhancements, various code generation improvements, dropping the Xeon Phi Knights Landing target, and various fixes.
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