DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 29/05/2017 10:33 AM, 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

Can someone please write up a post e.g. for the D blog to act as the 
official announcement (with a quick tutorial)? That way we can announce 
it to the wider programming community.