On Friday, 20 October 2017 at 20:41:24 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
Ever since I first tried programming in VHDL and realized that
it, at that time, was far too unproductive for my taste, I've
been waiting for the software and FPGA programming models to
unite...
What kinds of simplifications (over OpenCL) can and will
DCompute offer in this regard?
Over OpenCL: Same benefits it does over standard C
* a not completely insane interface
* generality and parameterisation
* reusability
* ...
As to how much of the total power of the FPGA you can use from D
compared to VHDL remains to be seen, although it will be
interesting to see how well this can cooperate with Luís' DHDL.
