Re: [boost] [compute] Review period starts today December 15, 2014, ends on December 24, 2014

Subject: Re: [boost] [compute] Review period starts today December 15, 2014, ends on December 24, 2014
From: Joel FALCOU (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-12-25 07:38:48

On 22/12/2014 16:44, Sebastian Schaetz wrote:
> Kyle Lutz <kyle.r.lutz <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Yeah, these are all interesting ideas. While I'm a bit hesitant to
>> bake this behavior into the low-level command_queue interface, I'd be
>> more than happy to support this type of API at a higher level.
> 
> I have the exact same problem, I'm hesitant to include these thoughts into
> Aura because I haven't found the best way to do it. I guess to find the
> correct API, a few variants have to be implemented and we have to see what
> makes most sense.
> 
>> I've also been meaning to look at Aura again more closely. Last time
>> was many months ago and it looks like you've done quite a lot of work
>> since then.
> 
> You are of course free to look but I have to disappoint your: these thoughts
> are up until now just thoughts. I'll let you know once I have something.

I think Aura and Boost.Compute have mertis as low level, C++ styled
proper wrapper on top of accelerator technology. It's important for them
to be flexible and not too fancy so multiple fancier tool can reuse them.