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- Added infrastructure to support a new scalar representation, whereby
every object contains an internal scalar that defaults to 1.0. This
facilitates passing scalars around without having to house them in
separate objects. These "attached" scalars are stored in the internal
atom_t field of the obj_t struct, and are always stored to be the same
datatype as the object to which they are attached. Level-3 variants no
longer take scalar arguments, however, level-3 internal back-ends stll
do; this is so that the calling function can perform subproblems such
as C := C - alpha * A * B on-the-fly without needing to change either
of the scalars attached to A or B.
- Removed scalar argument from packm_int().
- Observe and apply attached scalars in scalm_int(), and removed scalar
from interface of scalm_unb_var1().
- Renamed the following functions (and corresponding invocations):
bli_obj_init_scalar_copy_of()
-> bli_obj_scalar_init_detached_copy_of()
bli_obj_init_scalar() -> bli_obj_scalar_init_detached()
bli_obj_create_scalar_with_attached_buffer()
-> bli_obj_create_1x1_with_attached_buffer()
bli_obj_scalar_equals() -> bli_obj_equals()
- Defined new functions:
bli_obj_scalar_detach()
bli_obj_scalar_attach()
bli_obj_scalar_apply_scalar()
bli_obj_scalar_reset()
bli_obj_scalar_has_nonzero_imag()
bli_obj_scalar_equals()
- Placed all bli_obj_scalar_* functions in a new file, bli_obj_scalar.c.
- Renamed the following macros:
bli_obj_scalar_buffer() -> bli_obj_buffer_for_1x1()
bli_obj_is_scalar() -> bli_obj_is_1x1()
- Defined new macros to set and copy internal scalars between objects:
bli_obj_set_internal_scalar()
bli_obj_copy_internal_scalar()
- In level-3 internal back-ends, added conditional blocks where alpha and
beta are checked for non-unit-ness. Those values for alpha and beta are
applied to the scalars attached to aliases of A/B/C, as appropriate,
before being passed into the variant specified by the control tree.
- In level-3 blocked variants, pass BLIS_ONE into subproblems instead of
alpha and/or beta.
- In level-3 macro-kernels, changed how scalars are obtained. Now, scalars
attached to A and B are multiplied together to obtain alpha, while beta
is obtained directly from C.
- In level-3 front-ends, removed old function calls meant to provide
future support for mixed domain/precision. These can be added back later
once that functionality is given proper treatment. Also, removed the
creating of copy-casts of alpha and beta since typecasting of scalars
is now implicitly handled in the internal back-ends when alpha and
beta are applied to the attached scalars.
BLIS framework
README
---
Thank you for deciding to try out the BLIS framework!
BLIS is a portable framework for instantiating BLAS-like libraries. The
framework was designed to isolate essential kernels of computation that,
when optimized, immediately enable optimized implementations of most of
its commonly used and computationally intensive operations.
BLIS has many features. For more detailed information about the project,
please check the BLIS homepage:
http://code.google.com/p/blis/
You can keep in touch with developers and other users of the project by
joining one or more of the following mailing lists:
o blis-announce - http://groups.google.com/group/blis-announce
Used only for announcements and other important messages regarding
BLIS.
o blis-discuss - http://groups.google.com/group/blis-discuss
Please join and post to this mailing list if you have general questions
or feedback regarding BLIS. Application developers (end users) should
probably post here.
o blis-devel - http://groups.google.com/group/blis-devel
Please join and post to this mailing list if you are a BLIS developer
(i.e., you are trying to use BLIS to create libraries, you want to
write kernels for the framework, or you are trying to modify or extend
the framework itself).
Also, please read the LICENSE file for information on copying and
distributing this software.
For a step-by-step guide on configuring, compiling, and installing BLIS,
please read the INSTALL file. Also, please check the BLIS website's wiki
page for other useful how-to guides.
Thanks again for your interest in BLIS!
Regards,
Field G. Van Zee
field@cs.utexas.edu