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Brrt is untangling the intricacies of floating point expressions so close to the metal in his He provides some of his insights Here is his brief report Last month, I've been busy with floating point support. Getting that ready involved two things: Getting the type system for the expression template precompiler ready. This works now, I'm happy with the result. Fixing the register allocator to support it. This works as ... read more |
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Back in August 2018, André Walker reported on his initial work to revitalize the revitalizing of blogs.perl.org. He made the following report to the TPF Grants Committee on 14 Aug 2018 The latest report as of this post can be found here. Short update regarding grant progress. I have most of the major features I wanted to implement already in place, even if some are a bit rough. So it's ... read more |
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André Walker reports significant progress on his bold attempt to revitalize blogs.perl.org. He made the following report to the TPF Grants Committee on 3 Jan 2019 I will also backpost another report André made to the Committee in Aug 2018 shortly. The work I set out to do for the grant on blogs.perl.org is almost complete. Here is a breakdown of what is done, what is missing for a first ... read more |
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Brrt has hit the ground running on his MoarVM JIT Compiler grant. Here is his interim report: I wanted to start with floating point support, which has two subtasks: Ensure that DynASM encodes SSE instructions with variadic registers correctly. Ensure that the JIT itself accepts and works with floating point registers. I finished the first two of those tasks. For some context, x86-64 instruction encoding rules require an extra byte ... read more |