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", nouning verbs does >> weird the language, but only to those who aren't used to that particular >> nouning of the verb. >> > > Just to clarify, I find that "Compute" is not evocative of "GPU". I read > "CUDA by Example" a couple years ago, and even downloaded the CUDA SDK and > compiled/ran a simple program on a graphics card. But I never noticed that > "Compute" had anything specific to do with GPU programming. > > 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! > > The problem with the first conversation is W may just move on to the next > topic rather than investigate what DCompute is. > 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 waiting! ;)
