DUDA

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

That's why CUDA is completely pointless: you're gonna wrap it anyway.
Instead of wrapping a past-age vendor-locked pre-OpenCL technology, you
could wrap modern portable technology.

The richness of the language is completely irrelevant, as it's gonna be
wrapped anyway.
Yes, CUDA is completely pointless.

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:51 PM, <"Anders Sjögren\"
<anders at sjogren.info>"@puremagic.com> wrote:

> Hi Gor!
>
> Then I guess you think C++ is a completely pointless waste of time because
> of C also? CUDA carries a subset of C++, while OpenCL does not, allowing
> for OO-programming, metaprogramming, etc. Adding to that, there is also
> strong IDE support (editing and debugging) for CUDA, while for OpenCL I
> have yet to find that (which would of course also be an issue for "DUDA").
> Not _completely_ pointless yet, right?
>
> Anyways, the original question was about GPU-oriented languages and D.
>
> As a variant to CUDA in D (DUDA): If there was a way to use a subset of D
> (à la C++AMP) and have that turn into GPU and/or CPU (using the
> code-gen/backend of the LLVM CUDA compiler, or compile to OpenCL as a
> target for that matter), it'd be great. I too don't like vendor lock-in
> (CUDA=nVidia) and C++ has it's drawbacks as a language. The alternative of
> OpenCL is too much plain C for it to feel modern/productive. An alternative
> based on D could really have a potential of being great!?
>
> To state it as an open question: What would be the D way of facilitating
> GPU(+CPU) programming?
>
> Cheers
>
> Anders
>
> ---
>
>
> On Monday, 14 May 2012 at 18:24:26 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>
>> I think CUDA is a completely pointless waste of time because of OpenCL.
>>
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:35 PM, <"Anders Sjögren\"
>> <anders at sjogren.info>"@puremag**ic.com <http://puremagic.com>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi!
>>>
>>> I was wondering, is anyone aware if there been any efforts on using D as
>>> the foundation for a GPGPU language?
>>>
>>> For example: Given that there is are LLVM based D and CUDA compilers,
>>> might there be a way to modify D to nVidia GPU-enabled DUDA similar to
>>> how
>>> C++ is modified to CUDA, without having to implement the entire compiler?
>>>
>>> Keep up the interesting and good work!
>>>
>>> Anders
>>>
>>
>
>


-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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