DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

[Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 30 May 2017 at 16:00, Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 20:36:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>>
>> May I suggest, however, that the name DCompute is a bit generic, and
>> provides no hint that it provides GPU programming for D.
>>
>> How about calling it D-GPU ? I bet you'd get a lot more clicks on a name
>> like that.
>>
>
> For what it's worth, I see "Compute" used all the time to refer to this
> stuff. OpenCL stands for Open Computing Language and you'll see it
> reference "compute devices" frequently in documentation about it. CUDA
> (originally) stood for Compute Unified Device Architecture.
>
> We're all in the business of computation but the hardware accelerated
> processing people seem pretty keen on using "compute" to describe what they
> do. DCompute would fit right in and its purpose would be clear to anyone in
> that particular field, I think.
>

I kinda wanted to add a +1 here too; I read 'compute' used as a noun(-ish)
as a synonym for GPGPU these days... I think the industry is more-or-less
agreed on that.
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