Phobos Action Items

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 01:01:30 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 June 2016 at 20:04:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 9. create a module that enables code to be run on GPUs (John 
>> Colvin is doing work on this, ask him how to help!)
>
> Now that I'm on my (southern hemisphere) winter break I will be 
> working on getting LDC to emit PTX and SPRIV and if I get time 
> whatever metal uses to be able to use D as the source language 
> for CUDA, OpenCL and Metal respectively. This should hopefully 
> enable seamless integration with the use of introspection and 
> whatnot.
>
> This would give us a huge advantage, being able to target the 
> three major compute APIs.

This would be awesome. I would love to get my hands on prototypes 
of this, no matter how buggy and unfinished they are at any given 
point.