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jangray@mastodon.social

Jan Gray

Great to see support for RISC-V Zfinx in LLVM 17. A frugal means for soft processors to support HW FPUs. Now more frugal still with hard FP32 *+- via modern Intel FPGA versatile DSPs and AMD Versal DSP58s.

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Jan Gray

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I wish all extensions were as pleasing to say as zee finks.

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asb@fosstodon.org

Alex Bradbury

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@jangray I like to imagine the canonical pronunciation of Zvfbfwma is zuv-fub-fwuh-mah

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Conor Dooley

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@asb @jangray Zidgaf is going to be my extension.
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jangray@mastodon.social

Jan Gray

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@asb as you may know in the draft proposed composable custom extensions (CX) spec we propose the canonical name for any new composable extension is an unpronounceable 128b GUID. (Decentralized, and industry proven.)

Then in code, a library discovers whether a system is configured with a specific extension via a “friendly” name like CXID_MX6v3 (3rd version of 6b-shared-microexponents extension).

(https://github.com/grayresearch/cx for spec, design&rationale talk, other collateral)

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Alex Bradbury

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@jangray thanks for the pointer - I'll have to take a closer look

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