Enable passing in a GPU architecture string via env var#3176
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Looks good! Should work as expected on the gemm kernels
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| inline const std::string& metal_gpu_arch() { | ||
| static std::string gpu_arch_ = get_var("MLX_METAL_GPU_ARCH", ""); | ||
| return gpu_arch_; |
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Wondering if some sanity checks should be done here? E.g., we use .back() on the arch name in a number of places...
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Oops overzealous merging.
Well there is the assumption that device_->architecture()->name()->utf8String() can't be the empty string. Given that the PR fixes the error of accessing positions -3 and -2 and also assuming these were in 0-9.
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We tend to use this string for routing to kernels and so on and it can be helpful to test different pathways quickly. See for instance with or without NAX and so on.