A minor version update with a few important changes:
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Stability fix for AVX2 target (Haswell) - problem with gather instructions was
released in LLVM 3.4, if you build with LLVM 3.2 or 3.3, it's available in our
repository (llvm_patches/r183327-AVX2-GATHER.patch) and needs to be applied
manually. -
Stability fix for widespread issue on Win32 platform (#503).
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Performance improvements for Xeon Phi related to mask representation.
Also LLVM 3.3 has been released and now it's the recommended version for building ISPC.
Precompiled binaries are also built with LLVM 3.3.