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LLVM/Clang Compiler Being Adapted For AVX10.2 Now Making 512-bit Support Mandatory


Coming out this week was an updated AVX10 whitepaper from Intel with the surprising decision that 512-bit floating point and integer support is no longer considered optional for AVX10.2

Coming out this week was an updated AVX10 whitepaper from Intel with the surprising decision that 512-bit floating point and integer support is no longer considered optional for AVX10.2. Following the GCC patches talked about in the earlier article, over the past day there have been LLVM merge requests opened by Intel engineers for addressing their AVX10.2 support. See this pull request search but long story short the open-source LLVM compiler is being updated against the latest AVX10 whitepaper.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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