Information about SVM in blender?

Contributing to Blender
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Hi there!
what is SVM stand for ? what it is ?
can anyone share links\code and say few words?

very appreciate
B.

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In which context did you see the acronym?

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thanks for the quick reply,
I noticed SVM mentioned in blender in different rendering related threads and wikis.
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Render/Cycles/Optimization
https://developer.blender.org/T68917

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https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Render/Cycles/SourceLayout

defines what it stands for and where you can find the files related to it but not much other documentation is available for it.

it’s essentially a small virtual machine for shader execution.

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Unfortunate acronym collision there, because ROCm HIP also have with HSA its little virtual machine

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