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Iris. Generate images from text descriptions using pure C, no dependencies needed.

github.com/antirez/iris.c

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Updates

February 2026

README: grammar. Feb 13
Project renamed into Iris. Feb 13
Zimage turbo support Feb 13
Merge pull request #36 from FHult/fix/crash-fixes Feb 13
Fix two crash bugs: 16-bit PNG loading and GPU VAE decode Feb 12
Merge branch 'pr-24' Feb 8
Dynamic reference resizing to fit MPS 4GB attention limit Feb 8
Invalidate GPU weight cache when freeing block weights Feb 8
Fix indentation in Metal mathMode runtime check Feb 8
Merge pull request #29 from brendon9x/runtime-mathmode-api Feb 8
Use runtime @available check for Metal mathMode API Feb 8
Update .gitignore. Feb 8
Fix mmap memory regression: free block weights after use in BLAS path Feb 8
Suppress backend banner and license warning with --quiet Feb 8
Add MPS startup banner, remove old verbose-gated one Feb 8
Merge blas-speed: thread-parallel attention, strided BLAS, fast_expf Feb 8
Fix mmap teardown safety, pthread error handling, and Metal softmax t… Feb 8
BLAS conv2d: write sgemm output directly with strided ldc Feb 8
BLAS: thread-parallel attention heads with pthreads Feb 8
Qwen3: fast_expf + strided K attention + fused SwiGLU Feb 8