CUDA with D?

[Lutger]

Chris R Miller wrote:

> Trass3r wrote:
>> Is there any tutorial or code for using CUDA with D?
> 
> Short answer: no.
> 
> I looked into writing CUDA with D a while back.  The problem is that the 
> CUDA C runtime and the D runtime are 100% incompatible.  CUDA works by 
> taking C-like code and compiling it with a special NVCC compiler, which 
> emits code that's specifically for NVIDIA GPUs.
> 
> I found that it would be *possible* to take NVCC and write a D-frontend 
> for it (The MathWorks did it for their MATLAB language), but that was a 
> lot more work that I was willing to do in order to do stupid things like 
> see how fast my graphics card can count to a million.
> 
> I hope you have better luck!  Maybe something has changed... maybe an 
> LLVM->NVCC bridge (so you could take the LDC frontend and plug it into 
> NVCC and there you go?  I don't know, it'd be cool, but I *highly* doubt 
> it exists).

I think OpenCL will be easier and work om AMD to boot.