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Re:New Scheme-Based GPU Programming Language by tater on Sunday July 14, 2013 @12:15PM (#6041254)
Not to mention GPUs have no stack, no recursion.
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Re:New Scheme-Based GPU Programming Language by larsberg on Sunday July 14, 2013 @06:38PM (#6042527)
You can compile away those issues with a sufficiently smart compiler!

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2364563

(Caveat: I'm the author of that paper)

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Re:New Scheme-Based GPU Programming Language by daniel-cussen on Sunday July 14, 2013 @01:43PM (#6041506)
You can do tail recursion without a stack...but still, you'd have to branch, which GPUs hate doing.
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Re:New Scheme-Based GPU Programming Language by gamegoblin on Sunday July 14, 2013 @01:45PM (#6041511)
NVIDIA hardware with compute capability 2.0 and support for CUDA 3.1 (e.g. Fermi chips) have recursion.
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