I wonder how much of this was motivated by Nervana System&#x27;s successes building their own assembler for Neon [0], or if perhaps this work started before it.<p>In either case more openness for low level hardware optimizations is always welcome and beneficial to the community.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NervanaSystems&#x2F;nervanagpu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NervanaSystems&#x2F;nervanagpu</a>