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LLVM 20 Promotes SPIR-V To Official Backend, Enabled By Default


Following a call by Intel developers last month for making the SPIR-V back-end an official target within LLVM as a promotion to its existing 'experimental' backend status, the change has now been made ahead of the upcoming LLVM 20 release.

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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