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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