[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] RFC: First-class Matrix type

[Andrea Bocci via llvm-dev]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018, 00:44 Richard Smith via cfe-dev, <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

>
> On the LLVM IR side, I'm personally unconvinced that we should model
> matrices in the IR directly as a new first-class type, unless there's some
> target out there that has matrix operations in hardware / matrix registers,
> but IR is not really my area of expertise so give that opinion as much or
> little weight as you see fit.
>

Recent NVIDIA GPUs do support some matrix operations natively in the
hardware: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/programming-tensor-cores-cuda-9/ .

Ciao,
.Andrea

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