16.1 release includes:
- Support for Intel® Core™ 6th generation and Xeon® v4 processors (former Intel microarchitecture codename Broadwell)
- Support for OpenCL™ 2.0 specification
- Improved cross-CPU support of pre-compiled kernel binary in Runtime:
- Enables loading pre-generated kernel binaries that saves OpenCL program build time. For more information, see https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/540584
- Enables generating a JIT binary for target CPU model by the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ - Offline Compiler. For more information, see https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/539388
- Bug and memory leak fixes.
- Compiler infrastructure was updated to LLVM version 3.6.2