Intel Looking To Add SYCL Programming Support To LLVM/Clang

[cybertraveler]

I understand why they did it, but it's a shame it's built around C++.

[Nth_man]

A lot of advantages is what Intel got.

[ms178]

A lot of advantages is what Intel got.

This could be beneficial for other LLVM/Clang projects as well, e.g. AMD. At least that is my impression from the Twitter discussion about this, the former AMD engineer who was responsible for ROCm and now Intel employee, made this claim: https://twitter.com/angstroms/status...59290926018560

[Nth_man]

This could be beneficial for other LLVM/Clang projects as well, e.g. AMD.

I think the same, too.

[Meteorhead]

Do you have any info re: the AMDGPU back end ? Is that the SPIR-V work or something else ? Either way it sounds like something we should try to engage on.

With the recent work from Intel to mainline Clang, it would be critical to get a SPIR-V compiler in the AMD runtime. It wouldn't be nice to have to embed AMDGCN, PTX and SPIR-V, all just to target 3 vendors with a single binary. People should push for SPIR-V become an official LLVM back-end (already the topic of ongoing discussion).