It seems kinda weird to tout how great it is that we have CuArrays and CLArrays when CLArrays haven't been updated for 1.0 and only claims experimental support for 0.6.
Really hoping we see some movement on CLArrays in the near future.
Really hoping we see some movement on CLArrays in the near future.
I think the reason CLArrays.jl only claims experimental support on v0.6 is because it uses Transpiler.jl which is quite limited and a direct translation. CUDANative.jl is much more advanced and uses LLVM's .ptx backend. I think Simon mentioned he wanted to do a more direct compilation route, and that would probably be the change to start calling it experimental? I don't know, I'd like to hear about the future of CLArrays as well. If we have both working strong, boy oh boy I'll be happy.
> For this article I'm going to choose CuArrays, since this article is written for Julia 0.7 / 1.0, which still isn't supported by CLArrays.
OpenCL has been improved since then, but now it is too late.