DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed May 31 04:12:59 PDT 2017


On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 09:07:16 UTC, ParticlePeter wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> [...]
>
> D-GPU is very misleading to people who use the GPU for its 
> original purpose, which is graphics programming. One could 
> assume D-GPU being an alternative to Vulkan, OpenGL, DirectX.
>
> The term 'compute' is well established with the community of 
> people using the gpu for, well, compute purpose. You need to 
> ask your self if you want to attract people who understand that 
> term and are willing to use or try it with D, or if you want to 
> inform a broader spectrum of people that 'D' can now do some 
> (whatever) stuff on the 'GPU'.
>
> So +1 for DCompute, but if you insist you should definitely 
> narrow it down to D-GPGPU.

D-GPGPU is explicit.


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