Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: Ian Ollmann (iano.delete@this.apple.com), August 23, 2010 8:45 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
ajensen (@.) on 8/22/10 wrote:
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>So OpenCl becomes the new Java, sort of? I like the idea.
Perish the thought! Ugh. :-)
It's more like C, again. It does for vector code what C did for scalar code. It turns a bunch of ISA specific code into portable ISA agnostic code.
The real shame is that it had to happen at all. It would have been better if ISO C99 had adopted vector types. Perhaps the timing wasn't right.
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>So OpenCl becomes the new Java, sort of? I like the idea.
Perish the thought! Ugh. :-)
It's more like C, again. It does for vector code what C did for scalar code. It turns a bunch of ISA specific code into portable ISA agnostic code.
The real shame is that it had to happen at all. It would have been better if ISO C99 had adopted vector types. Perhaps the timing wasn't right.