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Interesting to see Intel boosting ISPC again. My impression had been that it was a skunkworks project they never really supported or accepted. See Matt Pharr'
by dzdt 8y ago
Interesting to see Intel boosting ISPC again. My impression had been that it was a skunkworks project they never really supported or accepted.
See Matt Pharr's very interesting blog posts on the development and open-sourcing of ISPC.
[1] https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html
- xiii1408 8y agoI second that. Matt Pharr's posts on ispc are an extremely interesting read, both from a technical perspective (programming abstraction and hardware design) and a human perspective (Intel politics, managing style, and career decisions).
- scott_s 8y agoThirded. One of the best take-away from his series of posts is that a programming model that a programmer can reason about is far better than compiler optimizations that a programmer can only guess about.
- Tuna-Fish 8y agoManagement at Intel has seen a major shakeup recently, and the blog series you linked to was public enough that the new management probably knows about it, and makes good points not just about the technology but also about the organizational failures at Intel. It's entirely possible that the winds have shifted and that the new management basically pointed a finger at the ISPC blog post series and said "more of that".
- caudamus 8y agoThanks for this link. Just read through the whole series and I found it to be very valuable. I'd +1 these recommendations and add it's probably valuable to anyone interested in doing GPGPU or fast parallel programming. Also it links out to a bunch of other high-quality resources.