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- Updated ReleaseNotes.md in preparation for next version.
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## Contents
* [Changes in 0.6.0](ReleaseNotes.md#changes-in-060)
* [Changes in 0.5.2](ReleaseNotes.md#changes-in-052)
* [Changes in 0.5.1](ReleaseNotes.md#changes-in-051)
* [Changes in 0.5.0](ReleaseNotes.md#changes-in-050)
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* [Changes in 0.0.2](ReleaseNotes.md#changes-in-002)
* [Changes in 0.0.1](ReleaseNotes.md#changes-in-001)
## Changes in 0.6.0
June 3, 2019
Improvements present in 0.6.0:
Framework:
- Implemented small/skinny/unpacked (sup) framework for accelerated level-3 performance when at least one matrix dimension is small (or very small). For now, only `dgemm` is optimized, and this new implementation currently only targets Intel Haswell through Coffee Lake, and AMD Zen-based Ryzen/Epyc. (The existing kernels should extend without significant modification to Zen2-based Ryzen/Epyc once they are available.) Also, multithreaded parallelism is not yet implemented, though application-level threading should be fine. (AMD)
- Changed function pointer usages of `void*` to new, typedef'ed type `void_fp`.
- Allow compile-time disabling of BLAS prototypes in BLIS, in case the application already has access to prototypes.
- In `bli_system.h`, define `_POSIX_C_SOURCE` to `200809L` if the macro is not already defined. This ensures that things such as pthreads are properly defined by an application that has `#include "blis.h"` but omits the definition of `_POSIX_C_SOURCE` from the command-line compiler options. (Christos Psarras)
Kernels:
- None.
Build system:
- Updated the way configure and the top-level Makefile handle installation prefixes (`prefix`, `exec_prefix`, `libdir`, `includedir`, `sharedir`) to better conform with GNU conventions.
- Improved clang version detection. (Isuru Fernando)
- Use pthreads on MinGW and Cygwin. (Isuru Fernando)
Testing:
- Added Eigen support to test drivers in `test/3`.
- Fix inadvertently hidden `xerbla_()` in blastest drivers when building only shared libraries. (Isuru Fernando, M. Zhou)
Documentation:
- Added `docs/PerformanceSmall.md` to showcase new BLIS small/skinny `dgemm` performance on Kaby Lake and Epyc.
- Added Eigen results (3.3.90) to performance graphs showcased in `docs/Performance.md`.
- Added BLIS thread factorization info to `docs/Performance.md`.
## Changes in 0.5.2
March 19, 2019