On 5/29/2017 2:33 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
Hi all,
I'm happy to announce that the dcompute modifications to LDC are now in the
master branch of LDC. The dcompute extensions require LLVM 3.9.1 or greater for
NVPTX/CUDA and my fork[1] of LLVM for SPIRV.
Someone (sorry I've forgotten who!) at dconf said they'd make a docker image of
the dependencies (ldc llvm), if you're reading please let me know! Or if someone
else wants to do it thats good too.
I'm still quite busy until July (honours thesis), but if anyone wanting to
contribute to either the runtime stuff [2](all D), LDC [3] or LLVM [1](mostly
C++) I'm happy to answer any questions, providing testing and performance
feedback on diverse systems is also appreciated. Feel free to drop a line at
https://gitter.im/libmir/public
[1]: https://github.com/thewilsonator/llvm/tree/compute
[2]: https://github.com/libmir/dcompute
[3]: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
Congratulations! This is great work, and a great contribution.
May I suggest, however, that the name DCompute is a bit generic, and provides no
hint that it provides GPU programming for D.
How about calling it D-GPU ? I bet you'd get a lot more clicks on a name like
that.
