DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/30/17 3:23 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I fear the conversation will go like this, like it has for me:
>>
>>  N: DCompute
>>  W: What's DCompute?
>>  N: Enables GPU programming with D
>>  W: Cool!
>>
>> instead of:
>>
>>  N: D-GPU
>>  W: Cool! I can use D to program GPUs!
> 
> This was literally what happened to me when I saw the headline.

I'm in the same camp, and I have a passing familiarity with the domain. 
Worse, only one day after the talk I'd already forgotten and thought 
DCompute does what DHDL does.

It seems there are two paths - either choose an unrelated name and push 
it as a brand (e.g. Amazon, Google, and in our community Phobos or 
Vibe), or choose a name that immediately establishes the library as "the 
D approach to GPGPUs". The name "DCompute" is in an unfortunate corner 
of the branding space.


Andrei