[boost] [compute] kernels as strings impairs readability and maintainability

Subject: [boost] [compute] kernels as strings impairs readability and maintainability
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-12-23 12:02:14

Hi,

While reading through the code of Boost.Compute to see what it does and 
how it does it, I often found that the approach used by the library of 
putting all OpenCL kernels inside of strings was an annoying limitation 
and made it quite difficult to reason with them, much less debug or 
maintain them.
This has a negative effect on the effort needed to contribute to the 
library.

Has separate compilation been considered?
Put the OpenCL code into .cl files, and let the build system do whatever 
is needed to transform them into a form that can be executed.

This would also make it easier to eventually provide a CUDA backend.