PTX Compression Method

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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Following this old thread regarding how PTX is compressed inside a fatbinary:

[url]https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/951929/how-to-retrieve-ptx-code-from-the-binary-file-without-using-cuobjdump-[/url]

Which is the compression method employed by the NVCC toolchain?

This method seems to be employed starting from CUDA 5. Back to CUDA 3/4 the PTX was saved in plaintext.

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Same question asked differently?
[url]https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1042212/cuda-programming-and-performance/demistifying-cuda-fat-binaries/[/url]

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Actually I’m the same author of the question you mentioned, but the question was a bit different: it was related to the fatbinary organization.

Now the point is how PTX code is compressed.