Re: [boost] [rfc] Boost Graphic/Game Engine

From: Marcus Lindblom (macke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-18 05:40:54

Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Cromwell Enage <sponage_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
>> Yeah, it's sad to see everybody making their own math
>> libraries just because the ones "out there" don't take
>> advantage of [M/S]IMD instructions provided by their
>> favorite architecture, etc.
> 
> Does anybody have any experience with GPU calculations on DirectX 10?
> And how hard it is to provide some sort of library for this.
> Are GPU calculations still like before (API-wise)?

Nvidia has a library/compiler (CUDA) that compiles "C" to GPU's. (Not 
Cg). Perhaps that's something to look at?

Hm. A Boost library for developing languages/compilers. :) That'd be 
kool. (Heck, todays C++ looks like Haskell already, execpt for all the 
syntactic cruft. ;-)

Cheers,
/Marcus