Re:Qua: Alexia Massalin interview (1996)
by tjalfi on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @08:30PM
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I think the interviewer interpreted Massalin’s comment correctly.
She was (is?) involved in the design of the MicroUnity ISA.
You can find her name on quite a few of their patents.
She also posted to comp.compilers[0] about an improved version of the superoptimizer.
Their product was targeted at media codecs and signal processing so it would be natural to use a superoptimizer to identify whether an instruction was worth including in the ISA.
AFAIK MicroUnity never shipped a product but filed a lot of early patents on SIMD. They sued a number of tech companies for patent infringement so they may still exist.
She was (is?) involved in the design of the MicroUnity ISA.
You can find her name on quite a few of their patents.
She also posted to comp.compilers[0] about an improved version of the superoptimizer.
Their product was targeted at media codecs and signal processing so it would be natural to use a superoptimizer to identify whether an instruction was worth including in the ISA.
AFAIK MicroUnity never shipped a product but filed a lot of early patents on SIMD. They sued a number of tech companies for patent infringement so they may still exist.
[0] https://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/97-07-088