Bret,

Thanks for your feedback, you are raising a valid concern. Let me explain
why this happens this way.

ISPC is an open source project. It's backed by Intel, but it's *not an
Intel product*.

So it shouldn't matter much if maintainers operate from @gmail.com or @
intel.com email address, as long as they maintain the project. When I
started working on this project, I had to make a choice which email address
to use and strong argument for @gmail.com address was that most of the
people in open source community use gmail and hate the way Outlook
formatting looks in gmail (AFAIK this concern was raises in gcc and llvm
communities). So I decided to stick to gmail mailbox. Since that time this
formatting issue became far less noticeable, so probably it's good time to
reconsider this decision.

The reason for using Google Drive - it's just much handy for me and for
release candidate I consider it to be just good enough. Official release
will be hosted on regular SourceForge site, as usual.

And of course, you always have an option to build ISPC yourself, if you
prefer. Pre-built binaries is just a convenience feature.

Have you had a chance to try release candidate? Does it work well for your
code?

Dmitry.


On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:45 AM, B.Stastny <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is kind of odd that it came from an Intel employee from their
> personal email address claiming pre-built binaries.  Is this actually a
> legit release from Intel or is this a personal release?  I would expect the
> binaries to be officially hosted on the Website as pre-release over being
> emailed out and definitely not stored on a google drive.
>
> Odd to anyone else?
>
> -bret
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Dmitry Babokin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are going to release ispc 1.9.2 soon and have prepared a release
>> candidate for those of you who prefer to use pre-built binaries. Please
>> give it a try and let us know if you see any problems with your code.
>>
>> Windows (VS2015): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxh4sVF04yhxYnRR
>> czhlNzZOblU
>> Linux: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxh4sVF04yhxdzhwbzlzY1prU1U
>> MacOS: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxh4sVF04yhxUDlja3BkNGZyTzQ
>>
>> Main changes:
>> - debug support on Windows fixed
>> - SVML support for AVX512 targets
>> - several stability fixes
>> - based on LLVM 3.9 (we are still avoiding LLVM 4.0 due to know stability
>> and performance problems)
>>
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