I wonder how much of this was motivated by Nervana System's successes building their own assembler for Neon [0], or if perhaps this work started before it. In

I wonder how much of this was motivated by Nervana System's successes building their own assembler for Neon [0], or if perhaps this work started before it. In either case more openness for low level hardware optimizations is always welcome and beneficial to the community. [0] https://github.com/NervanaSystems/nervanagpu https://github.com/NervanaSystems/nervanagpu