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SPIRV-LLVM-Translator
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KhronosGroup / SPIRV-LLVM-Translator

SPIRV-LLVM-Translator

A tool and a library for bi-directional translation between SPIR-V and LLVM IR

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
632GitHub stars
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What it is

A tool and a library for bi-directional translation between SPIR-V and LLVM IR

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Observed mentions: 2019-02-15 08:44:20 UTC to 2025-07-26 12:02:48 UTC.

012019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Nim too, as it can use Zig as a compiler. There's also https://github.com/treeform/shady to compile Nim to GLSL. Also, more generally, there's an LLVM-IR->SPIR-V compiler that you can use for any language that has an LLVM back end (Nim has nlvm, for example): https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-LLVM-Translator That's not to say this project isn't cool, though. As usual with Rust projects, it's a bit breathy with hype (eg "sophisticated conditional compilation patterns" for cfg(feature)), but it seems well developed, focused, and most importantly, well documented. It also shows some positive signs of being dog-fooded, and the author(s) clearly intend to use it. Unifying GPU back ends is a noble goal, and I wish the author(s) luck.
In Rust running on every GPU
I'm not dead yet. I've just had a bit of fun updating the SPIR-V backend to use https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-LLVM-Translator instead of the old one which wasn't being updated. I'm in the process of adding clspv as a backend for Vulkan Compute shaders (in turn as a basis for targeting Intel's ispc compiler optimisations). Most of that fun involves bashing CMake around that head to try to get it to talk properly with pkg-config (I hate them both).
In DConf 2019 in London

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