On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 12:46:16 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 08:24:09 UTC, bioinfornatics wrote:
[...]
The library enables you to launch kernels written with the
accompanying complier extensions (the focus of this
announcement). It also provides the intrinsics
On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 08:24:09 UTC, bioinfornatics wrote:
On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 09:33:05 UTC, 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
On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 09:33:05 UTC, 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
On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 01:19:56 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
Other than I'm planning to using DCompute to implement "GPU
blitter" (as I couldn't find any hardware acceleration API for
raster graphics besides the long obsolete DirectDraw), but I'm
also thinking on if I could implement some
On Wednesday, 14 June 2017 at 05:43:01 UTC, Manu wrote:
See, I would have a very different conversation:
N: DCompute
M: Awesome, I've been waiting!
instead of:
N: D-GPU
M: What's that... is it, like, a rendering library?
N: No, it's a 'compute' library.
M: Ohhh, awesome! I've been
On 1 June 2017 at 09:28, Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 22:15:33 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
>
>>
>> And so what if people start a big discussion about the name. If only 10%
>> of those people come to the D site
On 31 May 2017 at 05:32, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 07:23:42PM +, Jack Stouffer via
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > > I fear the
On 31 May 2017 at 04:06, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 5/30/2017 5:12 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>
>> Ah, isn't English wonderful. I guess Walter is suffering the inverse of
>> the Calvin & Hobbes "Verbing nouns weirds the language",
On Thursday, 1 June 2017 at 01:45:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
You're right. Congratulations Nicholas for this great work and
I wish it succeeds by any name he chooses for it. -- Andrei
And nothing increases chances of success like contributions!
(subtle hint)
On Thursday, 1 June 2017 at 01:42:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 5/31/17 7:28 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 22:15:33 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 12:28:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson
wrote:
Perhaps there will be scope for renaming if/when this
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 22:03:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Yes, the name matters, but this thread has been pretty
thoroughly derailed from its original purpose.
- Jonathan M Davis
https://www.xkcd.com/386/
On 5/31/17 6:03 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 18:55:14 bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 12:28:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
But can we please reduce the bike shedding
Marketing is only bike shedding
On 5/31/17 7:28 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 22:15:33 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 12:28:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
Perhaps there will be scope for renaming if/when this also includes
graphics when either OpenCL is merged into the Vulkan API
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 22:15:33 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 12:28:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson
wrote:
Perhaps there will be scope for renaming if/when this also
includes graphics when either OpenCL is merged into the Vulkan
API or Petar Kirov gets Vulkan SPIRV
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 12:28:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
Perhaps there will be scope for renaming if/when this also
includes graphics when either OpenCL is merged into the Vulkan
API or Petar Kirov gets Vulkan SPIRV generation going on LLVM,
but for now the name stays.
People who
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 12:28:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
I am more inclined to be persuaded by the fact that everybody
that has actually done GPU programming has said that it makes
sense to them.
It would be a mistake to judge that on the basis of those posting
in this forum. I've
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/30/2017 5:12 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
Ah, isn't English wonderful. I guess Walter is suffering the
inverse of the Calvin & Hobbes "Verbing nouns weirds the
language", nouning verbs does weird the language, but only to
those
On 5/30/17 3:23 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I fear the conversation will go like this, like it has for me:
N: DCompute
W: What's DCompute?
N: Enables GPU programming with D
W: Cool!
instead of:
N: D-GPU
W: Cool! I can use D to
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 09:07:16 UTC, ParticlePeter wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
[...]
D-GPU is very misleading to people who use the GPU for its
original purpose, which is graphics programming. One could
assume D-GPU being an alternative to
On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 09:07:16 ParticlePeter via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > On 5/30/2017 5:12 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> >> Ah, isn't English wonderful. I guess Walter is suffering the
> >> inverse of the Calvin &
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 19:23:42 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I fear the conversation will go like this, like it has for me:
N: DCompute
W: What's DCompute?
N: Enables GPU programming with D
W: Cool!
instead of:
N: D-GPU
W:
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/30/2017 5:12 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
Ah, isn't English wonderful. I guess Walter is suffering the
inverse of the Calvin & Hobbes "Verbing nouns weirds the
language", nouning verbs does weird the language, but only to
those
On Tuesday, May 30, 2017 19:23:42 Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > I fear the conversation will go like this, like it has for me:
> > N: DCompute
> > W: What's DCompute?
> > N: Enables GPU programming with D
> >
Dne 30.5.2017 v 21:23 Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce napsal(a):
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I fear the conversation will go like this, like it has for me:
N: DCompute
W: What's DCompute?
N: Enables GPU programming with D
W: Cool!
instead of:
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 07:23:42PM +, Jack Stouffer via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > I fear the conversation will go like this, like it has for me:
> >
> > N: DCompute
> > W: What's DCompute?
> > N: Enables GPU
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I fear the conversation will go like this, like it has for me:
N: DCompute
W: What's DCompute?
N: Enables GPU programming with D
W: Cool!
instead of:
N: D-GPU
W: Cool! I can use D to program GPUs!
This was literally what
On 5/30/2017 5:12 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
Ah, isn't English wonderful. I guess Walter is suffering the inverse of the
Calvin & Hobbes "Verbing nouns weirds the language", nouning verbs does weird
the language, but only to those who aren't used to that particular nouning of
the verb.
Just
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 14:25:12 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 12:21:02 UTC, piotrklos wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 06:00:57 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 20:36:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
[...]
For what it's worth, I see "Compute" used
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 12:21:02 UTC, piotrklos wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 06:00:57 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 20:36:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
[...]
For what it's worth, I see "Compute" used all the time to
refer to this stuff. OpenCL stands for Open
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 06:00:57 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 20:36:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
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
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 08:16:06 UTC, Manu wrote:
I kinda wanted to add a +1 here too; I read 'compute' used as a
noun(-ish)
Ah, isn't English wonderful. I guess Walter is suffering the
inverse of the Calvin & Hobbes "Verbing nouns weirds the
language", nouning verbs does weird the
On 30 May 2017 at 16:00, Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 20:36:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>>
>> May I suggest, however, that the name DCompute is a bit generic, and
>> provides no hint that it provides GPU
On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 20:36:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
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.
For what it's
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 02:46:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/29/2017 6:10 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
there are also GitHub topics [1] which I will also properly
fill out. I just done a pass over the README.md
[1]: https://github.com/blog/2309-introducing-topics
Good. Making the
On 5/29/2017 6:10 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
there are also GitHub topics [1] which I will also properly fill out. I just
done a pass over the README.md
[1]: https://github.com/blog/2309-introducing-topics
Good. Making the content google-friendly is also extremely important. Back in
the
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 00:12:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/29/2017 3:52 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
How about calling it D-GPU ? I bet you'd get a lot more
clicks on a name like that.
Thanks, I called it dcompute because naming things is right up
there with cache invalidation.
Calling
On 5/29/2017 3:52 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
How about calling it D-GPU ? I bet you'd get a lot more clicks on a name like
that.
Thanks, I called it dcompute because naming things is right up there with cache
invalidation.
Calling it D-GPU would be misleading because there should be no reason
On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 20:36:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
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
On 29/05/2017 10:52 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 09:39:53 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
On 29/05/2017 10:33 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
On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 09:39:53 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
On 29/05/2017 10:33 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
On 29/05/2017 10:33 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!)
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