Intel SYCL and LLVM

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I am unfamilair with Intel SYCL . However does this discussion on Intel LLVM compilers have any relevance to Julia?

https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/issues/62#issuecomment-509912798

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All that really matters for Julia support of Intel GPUs is having a functioning LLVM target (like AMDGPU or NVPTX) that we can emit native code for, and a compute runtime that can accept native code and launch it as a kernel on the target GPU (as well as all the other things a good GPU runtime does). Both of these things seem to exist, although I don’t think it’s worth starting on supporting this in Julia until Intel upstreams their LLVM changes to an LLVM release that Julia can run with.

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