Re: [boost] [compute] review

Subject: Re: [boost] [compute] review
From: Sebastian Schaetz (seb.schaetz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-12-28 10:21:27

Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard <at> ens-lyon.org> writes:

> C++AMP is Microsoft proprietary technology for Visual Studio, with all 
> the associated problems one might expect.
> 
> SYCL is an open standard designed to integrate with C++11 as well as 
> possible, and has in implementation within the LLVM framework.
> 
> It's pretty much DirectX vs OpenGL again.

It is not. C++ AMP is an open standard [0] implemented not only by Microsoft
[1].

[0]
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nativeconcurrency/archive/2013/12/12/c-amp-open-spec-v1-2-published.aspx
[1] https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/cppamp-driver-ng/wiki/Home