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16:10:12
drmeister
Hello everyone. I’m at the meeting, which is about to start
16:13:31
Bike
we sent photos for you in slack.
16:43:07
drmeister
There is a Sycl project
16:43:26
drmeister
https://www.khronos.org/sycl/
17:33:17
stassats
quick, start a project named psychol
17:46:47
drmeister
I’ve made face contact with three of the five people I needed to. Interesting problem to find people I’ve never met in crowd of >500
21:03:07
drmeister
Good lord - Nvidia wrote a Fortran compiler to replace the PGI Fortran compiler.
21:07:21
stassats
didn't they acquire PGI?
21:08:34
drmeister
Yes! And they looked at the Fortran compiler (a mass of C code) and said "Kill it with fire" and wrote a new one from scratch.
21:50:18
drmeister
The new llvm optimization pass manager that if you have lots of functions can generate about a 30% improvement in optimization time.
21:50:51
drmeister
It's just been turned on in the tip of trunk. It will be in llvm 8 from what I'm told.
22:00:07
drmeister
There are also good changes to the ORC JIT engine.
22:00:35
drmeister
Also I found someone who showed me how to get debugging of JIT code to work with lldb on macOS.