We recently encountered a performance regression in one of our triton kernels and identified the culprit as the upstream LLVM SLP vectorization pass change (llvm/llvm-project@88e7b8b / ...

In the below example, there are two SLP reduction vectorization opportunities that share the same load. On their own, they are both profitable. However, when together, neither is able to vectorize ...

Abstract: SLP Auto-vectorization converts straight-line code into vector code. It scans input code for groups of instructions that can be combined into vectors and replaces them with their ...

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The development landscape is ripe with new languages and improvements on existing ones. Mozilla’s Rust, Apple’s Swift, Kotlin from JetBrains, and the experimental Python variant Mojo (and many others) ...

Azul supplies a number of different high-performance Java compilers, including Zing and Zulu (there is an embedded version of the latter). Azul’s latest offering is an updated version of Zing, ...