Alex Bradbury | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Alex Bradbury

Alex Bradbury

At Igalia since March 2022.

Cambridge (UK)

POSTS

Apr 10, 2023

Updating Wren's benchmarks

Wren is a “small, fast, class-based, concurrent scripting language”, originally designed by Bob Nystrom (who you might recognise as the author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters. It’s a...

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Apr 10, 2023

2023Q2 week log

I tend to keep quite a lot of notes on the development related (sometimes at work, sometimes not) I do on a week-by-week basis, and thought it might be fun...

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Mar 18, 2023

What's new for RISC-V in LLVM 16

LLVM 16.0.0 was just released today, and as I did for LLVM 15, I wanted to highlight some of the RISC-V specific changes and improvements. This is very much a...

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Mar 3, 2023

Commercially available RISC-V silicon

The RISC-V instruction set architecture has seen huge excitement and growth in recent years (10B cores estimated to have shipped as of Dec 2022) and I’ve been keeping very busy...

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Tweets

Join me at #RISCVSummiteurope next week in Barcelona where I’ll be delivering an invited keynote “Developments in LLVM-based toolchains and...

Join me at #RISCVSummiteurope next week in Barcelona where I’ll be delivering an invited keynote “Developments in LLVM-based toolchains and...

There’s a number of RISC-V mentions in the just-published UK National Semiconductor strategy. https://gov.uk/government/publications/national-semiconductor-strategy/national-semiconductor-strategy including this “next step”

There’s quite a few RISC-V mentions in the just-published UK National Semiconductor strategy. https://t.co/oEGOhvAMZ7 including this “next step” https://t.co/FlnjC0YhSd

Commits

[LLVM] [RISCV] Generalise shouldExtendTypeInLibcall logic to apply to all

[LLVM] [RISCV][test] Expand bfloat.ll tests to include i16 bitcasts and load…

[LLVM] [SelectionDAG] Implement soft FP legalisation for bf16 FP_EXTEND and …

[LLVM] [RISCV] Make zfbfmin imply the F extension