v0.19.0 Added SimpleGo, a pure Go backend #143

janpfeifer · 2025-04-29T11:23:21Z

janpfeifer
Apr 29, 2025
Maintainer

Package backends:
- Added simplego, a portable, simple albeit slow backend.
  - Implemented ~50 most common ops, see backends/simplego/capabilities, and most common numeric types (including BFloat16).
- Added sub-package notimplemented: helper to implement new backends.
- Added sub-package shapeinference: helper to implement new backends.
- Added sub-package default which includes the default packages.
- Added List() function to returned the currently registered (compiled-in) backends.
Package checkpoints
- Added Config.FromEmbed that allows loading a checkpoint from an embedded variable.
Package graph:
- Gather and GatherSlices now have and extra argument called indicesAreSorted that tells whether
  the start indices are guaranteed to be sorted, which allows some optimizations in some platforms.
- Exposed BackendGather, BackendScatterMax, BackendScatterMin and BackendScatterSum for test and debugging
  purposes.
Moved code generation tools from cmd to internal/cmd directory.

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