GPUs and Array Operations

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Craig Black wrote:
> Another idea.  What if this could be done using the recently added mixin 
> feature?  Then you could use a shading language directly rather than 
> trying to convert D code to a shading language.  I've never used mixins, 
> so I can't even think of how the syntax would look.  Is this a practical 
> idea?
> 
> -Craig

A solution like Blade* should be possible, especially when D gets some 
macro syntactic sugar, but somewhat involved probably. Converting D to a 
shading language does seem what you want for more general purpose 
computation. Nvidia has made a compiler specifically to do this in C, 
called Cuda.


* http://www.dsource.org/projects/mathextra/browser/trunk/blade