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Milepost GCC released
IBM has announced
the release of Milepost GCC, an extension to the GCC compiler which uses
machine learning techniques to improve application performance on embedded
processors. "'Our technology automatically learns how to get the
best performance from the hardware -- whether mobile phones, desktops, or
entire systems -- the software will run faster and use less energy,' noted
Dr. Bilha Mendelson, Manager of Code Optimization Technologies at IBM
Research - Haifa. 'We opened the compiler environment so it can access
artificial intelligence and machine learning guidance to automatically
determine exactly what specific optimizations should be used and when to
apply them to ramp-up performance.'" The code can be downloaded
from the Milepost site.
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Milepost GCC released Posted Jul 3, 2009 15:06 UTC (Fri) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723) [Link]
I saw the announcement on Slashdot a few hours earlier. The few hours difference have allowed LWN to at least provide a correct and well summarized account of the event. While LWN has the title "Milepost GCC released", which summarizes well the event, /. has "IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler", which is rather very partial and even wrong.
IBM Israel (not IBM at large) is only one of the 5 partners of the Milepost GCC project, the 4 others are from Europe, indeed the project is funded by the European Union. So I see little ground to emphasize the role of IBM in general, and to clearly downplay the European academic contribution.
Milepost GCC released Posted Jul 4, 2009 9:03 UTC (Sat) by tao (guest, #17563) [Link]
Slashdot misrepresenting an article? Now that has never happened before... :P
Milepost GCC released Posted Jul 5, 2009 16:09 UTC (Sun) by christian.convey (subscriber, #39159) [Link]
As someone whose dissertation topic has just been 80% torpedoed by this press release, let me be the first to thank those involved. :/
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