DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue May 30 14:58:54 PDT 2017


On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 19:32:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 07:23:42PM +0000, Jack Stouffer via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> > I fear the conversation will go like this, like it has for 
>> > me:
>> > 
>> >  N: DCompute
>> >  W: What's DCompute?
>> >  N: Enables GPU programming with D
>> >  W: Cool!
>> > 
>> > instead of:
>> > 
>> >  N: D-GPU
>> >  W: Cool! I can use D to program GPUs!
>> 
>> This was literally what happened to me when I saw the headline.
>
> I confess the first conversation was also my reaction when I 
> saw the name "DCompute".  I thought, "oh, this is some kind of 
> scientific computation library, right? That comes with a set of 
> standard numerical algorithms?".  Programming GPUs did not 
> occur to me at all.
>
>
> T

Same with me.


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