Change Log

Notable changes to the project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and the project adheres to the Haskell Package Versioning Policy (PVP)

1.3.0.0 - 2018-08-27

Changed

• Switch the thread scheduler to static, rather than dynamic, work stealing
• Thread scheduler is no longer block-synchronous
• Code generation improvements, in particular for >=2-dimensional operations

Fixed

• Stability improvements
• Race condition in thread scheduler (accelerate-llvm#49)

Contributors

Special thanks to those who contributed patches as part of this release:

• Trevor L. McDonell (@tmcdonell)
• Josh Meredith (@JoshMeredith)
• Ivo Gabe de Wolff (@ivogabe)
• Lars van den Haak (@sakehl)
• Joshua Meredith (@JoshMeredith)

1.2.0.0 - 2018-04-03

Fixed

• LLVM native throws "SIGSEGV: invalid address" due to fused FP operation (#409)

Added

• support for half-precision floats
• support for struct-of-array-of-struct representations
• support for LLVM-6.0
• support for GHC-8.4

Contributors

Special thanks to those who contributed patches as part of this release:

• Trevor L. McDonell (@tmcdonell)
• @samft
• Ryan Scott (@ryanglscott)
• Jesse Sigal (@jasigal)
• Moritz Kiefer (@cocreature)

1.1.0.1 - 2017-10-04

Fixed

• fix for runQ* generating multiple declarations with the same name

1.1.0.0 - 2017-09-21

Added

• support for GHC-8.2
• caching of compilation results (accelerate-llvm#17)
• new runtime linker; this fixes the annoying "forkOS_entry: interrupted" error. Note that currently this only supports x86_64 macOS and linux
• support for ahead-of-time compilation (runQ and runQAsync)

Changed

• generalise run1* to polyvariadic runN*
• programs run using all cores by default; the environment variable ACCELERATE_LLVM_NATIVE_THREADS is used to set the number of worker threads rather than +RTS -N

1.0.0.0 - 2017-03-31

• initial release