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Essentially finished plugin/control tree documentation (first draft).
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What's New
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* **Plugin feature now available!** BLIS addons (see below) provided a way to
quickly extend BLIS's operation support or define new custom BLIS APIs for your application.
BLIS plugins extend this support to completely external code, needing only an installed BLIS
package (no source required). BLIS plugins also allow users to define their own kernels
and blocksizes, combined with the cross-architecture support provided by the BLIS framework.
Finally, user plugins can utilize the new API for modifying the BLIS "control tree" which
defines the mathematical operation to be computed, as well as information controlling packing,
partitioning, etc. Users can now modify the control tree to implement new linear algebra
operations not already included in BLIS. See the [documentation](docs/PluginHowTo.md) for
an overview of these features and a step-by-step guides for creating plugins and modifying
the control tree to implement an example operation "SYRKD".

* **BLIS selected for the 2023 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software!** We
are thrilled to announce that Field Van Zee and Devin Matthews were chosen to receive
the [2023 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software](https://www.siam.org/prizes-recognition/major-prizes-lectures/detail/james-h-wilkinson-prize-for-numerical-software).
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overview of BLIS's mixed-datatype functionality and provides a brief example
of how to take advantage of this new code.

* **[Extending BLIS functionality](docs/PluginHowTo.md).** This document provides an
overview of BLIS's mechanisms for extending functionality through user-defined code.
BLIS has a plugin infrastructure which allows users to define their own kernels,
blocksizes, and kernel preferences which are compiled and managed by the BLIS framework.
BLIS also provides an API for modifying the "control tree" which can be used to
implement novel linear algebra operations.

* **[Performance](docs/Performance.md).** This document reports empirically
measured performance of a representative set of level-3 operations on a variety
of hardware architectures, as implemented within BLIS and other BLAS libraries
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