DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 08:24:09 UTC, bioinfornatics wrote:
> On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 09:33:05 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce that the dcompute modifications to LDC 
>> are now in the master branch of LDC. The dcompute extensions 
>> require LLVM 3.9.1 or greater for NVPTX/CUDA and my fork[1] of 
>> LLVM for SPIRV.
>>
>> Someone (sorry I've forgotten who!) at dconf said they'd make 
>> a docker image of the dependencies (ldc llvm), if you're 
>> reading please let me know! Or if someone else wants to do it 
>> thats good too.
>>
>> I'm still quite busy until July (honours thesis), but if 
>> anyone wanting to contribute to either the runtime stuff 
>> [2](all D), LDC [3] or LLVM [1](mostly C++) I'm happy to 
>> answer any questions, providing testing and performance 
>> feedback on diverse systems is also appreciated. Feel free to 
>> drop a line at https://gitter.im/libmir/public
>>
>> [1]: https://github.com/thewilsonator/llvm/tree/compute
>> [2]: https://github.com/libmir/dcompute
>> [3]: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know :
>  - what we can do with the library name "dcompute" ?

The library enables you to launch kernels written with the 
accompanying complier extensions (the focus of this 
announcement). It also provides the intrinsics to enable writing 
the kernels.
> Does this means that I can wrote In Dlang a piece of code and 
> execute it on the GPU ?

Yes, with some restrictions: recursion is prohibited, as are 
classes exceptions, the keyword 'synchronized' global variables 
(for now) and probably some others that I'm forgetting.
>
>  - where can I find some example ?

There are some examples on the wiki 
(https://github.com/libmir/dcompute/wiki), although they are 
likely incomplete and slightly out of date. I will be updating 
and greatly improving them as development progresses (continuing 
about halfway through July).

If you have any questions feel free to ask them on 
https://gitter.im/libmir/public.