On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 08:31:28 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 00:53 +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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Java itelf is a very basic language to allow this to be
possible. But
the library implementation denies this, and I don't see native
support
beyond JNI.
JNA
But your core point as I infer it is valid. Running on the JVM
it is
best not to have to use native code libraries. I think the NAG
Java
adaptor to it's Fortran and C++ libraries will not gain any
traction.
The new interest is getting support for the heterogeneous
processors on
the horizon. In threads elsewhere we started debating GPGPU
support in D
exactly because it will be a necessity in future processors.
Java has
two plays in this game already.
Did you ever get around to making a wiki page etc. as discussed
in the last thread about D GPGPU? I've been working on a fork of
cl4d that's shaping up ok (I'm thinking of publishing to
code.dlang.org once I've written a test-suite), but i'm
relatively inexperienced with openCL.
