My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

[Ralph Doncaster]

On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:59:28 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 15:16:46 UTC, Ralph Doncaster 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 15:10:36 UTC, Ralph Doncaster 
>> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 08:05:46 UTC, Nicholas 
>>> Wilson wrote:
>>>> For OpenCL I develop and maintain DCompute:
>>>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/dcompute
>>>> https://github.com/libmir/dcompute
>>>>
>>>> It has a much beautified interface to OpenCL (and is mostly 
>>>> consistent with its CUDA interface). You can also write 
>>>> kernels directly in D, however this requires that LDC is 
>>>> built against my fork of LLVM: 
>>>> https://github.com/thewilsonator/llvm
>>>>
>>>> It's still in dev but should be usable. Please let me know 
>>>> if you have issues using it.
>>>
>>> I saw your library before, but it looked like it is ONLY for 
>>> native D on GPUs.  I looked at it again, and don't see any 
>>> documentation or example showing that it works with standard 
>>> OpenCL kernels written in C.
>
> Yeah its a wrapper for OpenCL so as long as the names and 
> signatures of the symbols match it should work.

OK, maybe I'll take a closer look.

>> p.s. since you seem to be a green team guy, you might not know 
>> that llvm optimization sucks on AMD.  I use -legacy when 
>> building my kernels to get the good old compiler.
>
> "green team guy"?
>
> It that with the OpenCL C compiler?

nVidia's logo is green, while AMD's logo is often red.
On Linux with AMDGPU-Pro 17 and up, the driver uses llvm/amdgpu.  
The driver still has the old gcc-based? compiler.  The old 
compiler can be selected with clBuildProgram using the option 
"-legacy".