Has anyone used D with Nvidia's Cuda?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/4/2015 2:35 AM, ponce wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 02:49:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home_new.html
>
> I wrote the Driver and Runtime API bindings for
> https://github.com/DerelictOrg/DerelictCUDA
>
> And the one thing I've done with them is loading the functions, create a
> context and destroy it. So yeah I think using CUDA with D is possible.

Thank you. How far are you interested in going with it?


> OpenCL 2.x is much more interesting though.

It's slower:

> Furthermore, in studies of straightforward translation of CUDA programs to
> OpenCL C programs, CUDA has been found to outperform OpenCL;[83][86] but the
> performance differences can mostly be attributed to differences in the
> programming model (especially the memory model) and in the optimizations that
> OpenCL C compilers performed as compared to those in the CUDA compiler.

   -- 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL#Portability.2C_performance_and_alternatives

No reason not to support both, however.