ISPC 1.10.0 is released

[Dmitry Babokin]

Download page: http://ispc.github.io/downloads.html

=== v1.10.0 === (18 January 2019)

An ISPC update, which brings several new features, has a bunch of stability and

performance bug fixes, and infrastructure improvements for those who are

interested in participating in hacking on the ISPC trunk. We also are also

deprecating KNC support and the KNL-generic target (in favor of the native KNL

target, i.e. avx512knl-i32x16).

We've added:

- a streaming store and load implementation (see "Streaming Load and Store

  Operations" section in documentation)

- support for 64 bit wide types in aos_to_soa/soa_to_aos intrinsics

- an option to specify assembler style (see --x86-asm-syntax switch

  documentation is help message)

- a pragma to disable warnings locally (search for "#pragma ignore" in

  documentation)

Our examples include a new SGEMM example which demonstrates different versions

of matrix multiply with various level of optimality. It is useful for learning

how to start from a naive implementation and then add various optimizations

afterwards. Also, our build system is now based on CMake, as are the examples.

So you can use it as a reference for integrating ISPC to your CMake-based

project.

For those who are interested in hacking ISPC or trying a bleeding edge

development version, we have CI on Linux (Travis-CI) and Windows (Appveyor),

including automatic package builds on Windows. We also have Dockerfiles, which

demonstrate bringing up your environment for ISPC development.

The release is based on a patched LLVM 5.0.2 backend.