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[-] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Documentation on loongson processors is still pretty sparse. So far they've only published a volume 1 which covers the basics. All the interesting stuff is still to be documented but for some reason they archived the repository a few months ago: https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation/

I'm curious how a loongson SIMD optimized program would compare to the x86 equivalent.

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Xiaomi announced their HyperOS, and info is sparse on the anglo-web. I searched in Chinese forums and eventually found (randomly, happy I did though) dedicated forums and saw folks were getting randomly chosen to upgrade if they had a newer Xiaomi device. My fingers are crossed, hopefully I'll get it early.

What I am trying to say it I would imagine there is documentation and it simply isn't accessible, the nerds or interest groups of course know where to look. By accessible I don't mean blocked, rather it's not openly advertised as perhaps the amount of interest isn't there yet or isn't known to be there.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I get the impression they're still doing a lot of tweaking on it, so maybe they'll publish a spec once it's finalized a bit more.

Definitely would be interesting to see how optimized stuff runs on it. I really hope they integrate the whole SOC idea where there is shared memory between the CPU and the GPU too cause that removes the whole bus bottleneck.

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