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IBM has announcedthe release of Milepost GCC, an extension to the GCC compiler which usesmachine learning techniques to improve application performance on embeddedprocessors. “‘Our technology automatically learns how to get thebest performance from the hardware — whether mobile phones, desktops, orentire systems — the software will run faster and use less energy,’ notedDr. Bilha Mendelson, Manager of Code Optimization Technologies at IBMResearch - Haifa. ‘We opened the compiler environment so it can accessartificial intelligence and machine learning guidance to automaticallydetermine exactly what specific optimizations should be used and when toapply them to ramp-up performance.’” The code can be downloadedfrom the Milepost site.

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