DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 29/05/2017 10:52 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 09:39:53 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I promised Mike a blog post at dconf, but I'd prefer this to be done 
> after I hand in my thesis, so that I can:
> a) concentrate on it and
> b) keep the ball rolling after it is announced.
> 
> I will be working for Laeeth next semester with some time reserved for 
> dcompute and much more time available as I'll only be doing one (or 
> possibly two units, with a lot of time waiting for tanks to reach steady 
> state). Plus I think if people start to get familiar with the project 
> then the efforts will be much more coordinated once the announcement is 
> made and therefore by perception more attractive to potential users not 
> already familiar with D.

Ok so announce only within D community atm. Good to know :)