DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

piotrklos via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
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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