- technicians' guides: section 31 rewritten around kernels (masks, the end of a list, moving lanes,
int8 dot products, choosing instructions at build and at run time)
- cheat sheets and engineers' guides: the new operations and their IR; how features are found
- Kate and VS Code: @cpu, boolxN and the new built-ins highlighted
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- a * b + c is two roundings on every processor and --cpu: the IR has no fast-math flags, and clang
compiles it with -ffp-contract=on (checked in the assembly: never fused, also with FMA hardware)
- fma(a, b, c) / v.fma(b, c): one rounding, always (llvm.fma)
- muladd(a, b, c) / v.muladd(b, c): the fastest way here (llvm.fmuladd), what v.fma was before
- f32_bits / f32_from_bits / f64_bits / f64_from_bits: bitcasts, also of vectors
- f16_to_f32 / f32_to_f16 (LLVM half), bf16_to_f32 / f32_to_bf16 (integer ops, ties to even, NaN kept)
- docs (en, pl): what is guaranteed about floats, the new built-ins
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Psc42moPLwP43Cmb9oZqSR
- names from the C++ compiler (declareFns, HelperScope, Fn::borrowParam, mutatingMethods) replaced by the real ones
- section 8's subsections numbered 8.x; the map's LLVM type has 7 fields; @W in the index records
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- on stderr (finch ir stays the IR), as yellow warnings in editors (@W in the index), once per place
- str, arrays and maps inside a struct don't count: passing it copies only their handles
- none in the compiler, the examples or the tests other than the new one
- docs: the warning instead of "not planned"; what was and wasn't checked for Android
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016GzNP6r8dg6WDxUVZy8wjL
- cheat sheets, technicians' and engineers' guides: "\(x)", test blocks, finch fmt, finch.toml,
the build cache, the chain of calls, threads and atomics, C++/Rust/Android, struct #defines,
passing structs, why there is no warning for big copies
- Kate (version 4) and VS Code: code inside text, test, min/max/abs/clamp/assert/atomic_...
- finch.toml's name is used only for its entry; other files of the project keep their own name
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016GzNP6r8dg6WDxUVZy8wjL
- fn Struct.method(...) with self by reference, also on C structs
- map[K]V: insertion-ordered hash maps, literals, m[k] += 1, has/get/remove/keys/values
- -> T! / -> !, return error(...), or <value>, or { err }, try; fallible int/float/read_file/write_file/delete_file
- for i, x in list / for k, v in map
- print and str() share one text formatter
- LSP: method and map completion, method signatures; grammar and snippets for VS Code and Kate
- tests: 74 (methods, errors, maps + 11 failure cases); docs at all three levels, en and pl
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