diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 38c8a5e8d78..22022bc89c8 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -305,6 +305,21 @@ which ensure vector-friendly data layout, explicit vectorization and compact representation of the program. The project uses the LLVM infrastructure for optimization and code generation. +Likely +------ + +`Likely `_ is an embeddable just-in-time Lisp for +image recognition and heterogenous architectures. Algorithms are just-in-time +compiled using LLVM’s MCJIT infrastructure to execute on single or +multi-threaded CPUs and potentially OpenCL SPIR or CUDA enabled GPUs. Likely +exploits the observation that while image processing and statistical learning +kernels must be written generically to handle any matrix datatype, at runtime +they tend to be executed repeatedly on the same type. Likely also seeks to +explore new optimizations for statistical learning algorithms by moving them +from an offline model generation step to a compile-time simplification of a +function (the learning algorithm) with constant arguments (the training set). + + Additional Information ======================