Trass3r wrote:
Chris R Miller schrieb:
Trass3r wrote:
Is there any tutorial or code for using CUDA with D?
Short answer: no.
I looked into writing CUDA with D a while back. The problem is that
the CUDA C runtime and the D runtime are 100% incompatible. CUDA works
by taking C-like code and compiling it with a special NVCC compiler,
which emits code that's specifically for NVIDIA GPUs.
What a pity, just read that article and thought it might be possible to
get it to work:
http://www.ddj.com/architect/211800683
But thanks for your answer. Saves me some time ;)
And I quote:
# A more flexible and powerful capability lies in the ability of many
# languages -- such as Python, Perl, and Java -- to be extended through
# modules written in C, or CUDA when programming for GPU environments.
You're still writing in C, just using D to make an (extern) function
call. So it's not exactly D on the GPU, so I don't think it counts -
plus the build sequence to build the C part with GCC->NVCC pass-through
(or the MSVC->NVCC pass-through) would be a absolute nightmare to work with.
I looked into OpenCL, which appears (at first glance) to be a funky way
of stringing together assembler instructions using C function calls.
I'm sure it's fast, but it's not the most friendly looking code to me
(then again, I don't know ASM, so what do I know?)
