DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed May 31 18:42:16 PDT 2017


On 5/31/17 7:28 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 22:15:33 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 12:28:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>>> Perhaps there will be scope for renaming if/when this also includes 
>>> graphics when either OpenCL is merged into the Vulkan API or Petar 
>>> Kirov gets Vulkan SPIRV generation going on LLVM, but for now the 
>>> name stays.
>>
>> People who GPU program are indeed a small group. But you do NOT entice 
>> other people to try it, when they do not even know a language has this 
>> feature set. And this comes down to marketing.
>>
>> Lets post "D has DCompute" or "D has D-GPU"... on Reddit, ycombinator 
>> and other forum or news site.
>>
>> What do you think people will more likely click on?
>>
> 
> So you don't post either of those titles and instead post "D has 
> DCompute: Native heterogeneous computing on GPUs and more, hassle free!"

"D has the invariant qualifier: It means immutable".


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