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Re:DConf 2019 in London by yarg on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:24AM (#19169353)
One thing that I like the look of in D (although just the LLVM version) is DCompute.

It's GPGPU functionality with an absolute minimum of boilerplate. Unfortunately it does not seem to be in active development.

Re:DConf 2019 in London by nicwilson on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:44AM (#19169430)
I'm not dead yet.

I've just had a bit of fun updating the SPIR-V backend to use https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-LLVM-Translator instead of the old one which wasn't being updated. I'm in the process of adding clspv as a backend for Vulkan Compute shaders (in turn as a basis for targeting Intel's ispc compiler optimisations). Most of that fun involves bashing CMake around that head to try to get it to talk properly with pkg-config (I hate them both).

Re:DConf 2019 in London by yarg on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:15AM (#19169769)
Nice. Thanks for doing the ugly work so that other people don't have to.