GPGPU work and Identifiers

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 12:38:00 UTC, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 11:12:50 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>> This thread is partly to announce that i will be adding to LDC 
>> the ability to generate code for GPUs through OpenCL, CUDA 
>> (and if i have time) Metal in my fork at 
>> https://github.com/thewilsonator/ldc and partly to request the 
>> reservation of the relevant Version identifiers. (Do I do this 
>> by a pull request?)
>
> What is your current status?
>
Just starting. But I know what i need to do ( in terms of 
metadata)

> Is that SPIR-V or SPIR?
SPRI-V
> I tought that LLVM did not have a SPIR-V backend mainlined. Or 
> are you using a out of tree one from Khronos?

Yes

>
> Do you have any examples?
Not yet.
>
> Cheers, Jakob.