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EfikaMX impressions!

Jul

2010

Hey everyone, it’s being a while since my last post. On 5th March 2009, I submitted a proposal to Power Developers to actually improve the ARM Cortex A8 support into the LLVM Compiler. The proposal was accepted in 24th August 2009, and the board arrived in late December. After opening the Fedex box, this is ...

CUDA @wscad2008

Nov

2008

A few weeks ago, Rodolfo Azevedo and I presented a workshop entitled: High Performance Computing with CUDA. The workshop happened at WSCAD 2008 (Workshop em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho), and was hosted at Campo Grande, MS, Brasil. WSCAD is an event in pt_BR, where people discuss in forums about Computer Architecture, High Performance Computing ...

mips and llvm 2.4

Nov

2008

LLVM 2.4 is now available, and like every very active project, a bunch of new stuff has arrived (see the release notes for a detailed description). The same is true for the Mips back-end. I talked about mips+llvm in old posts, they highlighted some of the ABI issues both from EABI and O32 stuff. A ...

Tim Festival

Oct

2008

O show do MGMT no tim festival aconteceu sábado passado (dia 25/10) e dos shows que tenho ido nos últimos anos só perdeu para a performance do Sonic Youth. O evento não estava muito cheio, e isso me permitiu ver a banda com uma distância de 10 metros sem ficar sufocado, tomar empurrões e/ou cotoveladas ...

Structure return

Jul

2008

As said in the previous post, some ABI specs are a little confusing, and sometimes there are so many (15 different variations for mips), that you just don’t remember where that rule came from. For the more interested ones there’s a whole history about mips ABIs and why there are some many. I’ll devote my ...

Mips calling convention review

Jun

2008

Hi! Long days have passed since the last time I wrote here. A Chinese bot stole my domain, and since I havent paid in time, I also lost my old blog stuff. ok, beginning all over again! I got back to mips llvm work and I’m improving it now to support the psp allegrex core. ...