DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC
piotrklos via Digitalmars-d-announce
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Tue May 30 05:21:02 PDT 2017
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 06:00:57 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 20:36:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> May I suggest, however, that the name DCompute is a bit
>> generic, and provides no hint that it provides GPU programming
>> for D.
>>
>> How about calling it D-GPU ? I bet you'd get a lot more clicks
>> on a name like that.
>
> For what it's worth, I see "Compute" used all the time to refer
> to this stuff. OpenCL stands for Open Computing Language and
> you'll see it reference "compute devices" frequently in
> documentation about it. CUDA (originally) stood for Compute
> Unified Device Architecture.
>
> We're all in the business of computation but the hardware
> accelerated processing people seem pretty keen on using
> "compute" to describe what they do. DCompute would fit right in
> and its purpose would be clear to anyone in that particular
> field, I think.
+1
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