From 1d7b9f52b51ea257c1bc6a35090cd8b9c36dad1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bill Wendling Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:00:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Include blurb about Likely. By Josh Klontz. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_35@216762 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) 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 ======================