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Industry News and Conferences

LLVM and Clang

Discussions

Commits

  • RegAllocGreedy now accounts for reserved registers, which may be unavailable, in its heuristics. The change dramatically reduces the number of spills in an AMDGPU test and has little effect on CPU targets. D108578

MLIR

Discussions

Commits

OpenMP (Target Offloading)

Discussions

Commits

External Compilers

LLPC

Mesa