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10 years ago

aoc generated .attrib file meaning

Hi All, I am now using AOC to generate .aocx for MatrixMul example. Two hours later, it generate .aocx file successfully. It also generate some report files. One of the files is matrixmu...
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8 years ago

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Just forget about it. It is not that accurate since it is really hard to predict the OpenCL kernel performance.

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Seriously, "Just forget about it", estimating performance is a required feature for hardware OpenCL compiler. Do not just forget about it, open service request to Intel to put 13.1 throughput estimates back into the tools or do something better, so users can see impact of code changes before waiting 2-8 hors before hardware is built.