========= ispc News ========= ispc 1.9.1 is Released ---------------------- An ``ispc`` release with new native AVX512 target for future Xeon CPUs and improvements for debugging. Release is based on patched version LLVM 3.8 backend. For more details, please check `Release Notes`_. .. _Release Notes: https://github.com/ispc/ispc/blob/master/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt ispc 1.9.0 is Released ---------------------- An ``ispc`` release with AVX512 (KNL flavor) support and a number of bug fixes, based on fresh LLVM 3.8 backend. For more details, please check `Release Notes`_. .. _Release Notes: https://github.com/ispc/ispc/blob/master/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt ispc 1.8.2 is Released ---------------------- An update of ``ispc`` with several important stability fixes and an experimental AVX512 support has been released. Binaries are based on LLVM 3.6.1. Binaries with native AVX512 support are based on LLVM 3.7 (r238198). For more details, please check `Release Notes`_. .. _Release Notes: https://github.com/ispc/ispc/blob/master/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt ispc 1.8.1 is Released ---------------------- A minor update of ``ispc`` with several important stability fixes has been released. Problem with auto-dispatch on Linux is fixed (affects only pre-built binaries), the problem with -O2 -g is also fixed. There are several improvements in Xeon Phi support. Similar to 1.8.0 all binaries are based on LLVM 3.5. ispc 1.8.0 is Released ---------------------- A major new version of ``ispc``, which introduces experimental support for NVPTX target, brings numerous improvements to our KNC (Xeon Phi) support, introduces debugging support on Windows and fixes several bugs. We also ship experimental build for Sony PlayStation4 target in this release. Binaries for all platforms are based on LLVM 3.5. ispc 1.7.0 is Released ---------------------- A major new version of ``ispc`` with several language and library extensions and fixes in debug info support. Binaries for all platforms are based on patched version on LLVM 3.4. There also performance improvements beyond switchover to LLVM 3.4. ispc 1.6.0 is Released ---------------------- A major update of ``ispc`` has been released. The main focus is on improved performance and stability. Several new targets were added. There are also a number of language and library extensions. Released binaries are based on patched LLVM 3.3 on Linux and MacOS and LLVM 3.4rc3 on Windows. Please refer to Release Notes for complete set of changes. ispc 1.5.0 is Released ---------------------- A major update of ``ispc`` has been released with several new targets available and bunch of performance and stability fixes. The released binaries are built with patched version of LLVM 3.3. Please refer to Release Notes for complete set of changes. ispc 1.4.4 is Released ---------------------- A minor update of ``ispc`` has been released with several stability improvements. The released binaries are built with patched version of LLVM 3.3. Since this release we also distribute 32 bit Linux binaries. ispc 1.4.3 is Released ---------------------- A minor update of ``ispc`` has been released with several stability improvements. All tests and examples now properly compile and execute on native targets on Unix platforms (Linux and MacOS). The released binaries are built with patched version of LLVM 3.3. ispc 1.4.2 is Released ---------------------- A minor update of ``ispc`` has been released with stability fix for AVX2 (Haswell), fix for Win32 platform and performance improvements on Xeon Phi. As usual, it's available on all supported platforms (Windows, Linux and MacOS). This version supports LLVM 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4, but now we are recommending to avoid 3.1, as it's known to contain a number of stability problems and we are planning to deprecate its support soon. The released binaries are built with 3.3. ispc 1.4.1 is Released ---------------------- A major new version of ``ispc`` has been released with stability and performance improvements on all supported platforms (Windows, Linux and MacOS). This version supports LLVM 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4. The released binaries are built with 3.2. ispc 1.3.0 is Released ---------------------- A major new version of ``ispc`` has been released. In addition to a number of new language features, this release notably features initial support for compiling to the Intel Xeon Phi (Many Integrated Core) architecture. ispc 1.2.1 is Released ---------------------- This is a bugfix release, fixing approximately 20 bugs in the system and improving error handling and error reporting. New functionality includes very efficient float/half conversion routines thanks to Fabian Giesen. See the `1.2.1 release notes`_ for details. .. _1.2.1 release notes: https://github.com/ispc/ispc/tree/master/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt ispc 1.2.0 is Released ----------------------- A new major release was posted on March 20, 2012. This release includes significant new functionality for cleanly handling "structure of arrays" (SoA) data layout and a new model for how uniform and varying are handled with structure types. Paper on ispc To Appear in InPar 2012 ------------------------------------- A technical paper on ``ispc``, `ispc: A SPMD Compiler for High-Performance CPU Programming`_, by Matt Pharr and William R. Mark, has been accepted to the `InPar 2012`_ conference. This paper describes a number of the design features and key characteristics of the ``ispc`` implementation. (© 2012 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.). .. _ispc\: A SPMD Compiler for High-Performance CPU Programming: https://github.com/downloads/ispc/ispc/ispc_inpar_2012.pdf .. _InPar 2012: http://innovativeparallel.org/ ispc 1.1.4 is Released ---------------------- On February 4, 2012, the 1.1.4 release of ``ispc`` was posted; new features include ``new`` and ``delete`` for dynamic memory allocation in ``ispc`` programs, "local" atomic operations in the standard library, and a new scalar compilation target. See the `1.1.4 release notes`_ for details. .. _1.1.4 release notes: https://github.com/ispc/ispc/tree/master/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt ispc 1.1.3 is Released ---------------------- With this release, the language now supports "switch" statements, with the same semantics and syntax as in C. This release includes fixes for two important performance related issues: the quality of code generated for "foreach" statements has been substantially improved, and performance regression with code for "gathers" that was introduced in v1.1.2 has been fixed in this release. Thanks to Jean-Luc Duprat for a number of patches that improve support for building on various platforms, and to Pierre-Antoine Lacaze for patches so that ispc builds under MinGW.