Nvidia's notes date its OpenCL compiler switch to 617.42, and to 29 drivers before it

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 07 Oct, 04:05 UTC

Nvidia's Windows release notes for GeForce 617.42, dated 6 October, tell developers that their OpenCL code is about to be handed to a different compiler: "With 617.42, NVIDIA OpenCL will use the new Clang + NVVM 7.0 based compiler as the default compiler, replacing the old compiler". The notes…