DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC
Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue May 30 09:11:27 PDT 2017
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 14:25:12 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 12:21:02 UTC, piotrklos wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 06:00:57 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
>>> On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 20:36:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> +1
>
> +1
-1
When I see compute I think also at mir glas, BLAS, GEMM stuff,
i.e. HPC stuff. There is often GPGPU involved but not necessarily.
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