Clang: C, C++, Obj-C and... OpenCL

Clang/LLVM was already being used by AMD and nVidia internally for their shader and GPU compute kernel compilers for HLSL, GLSL, DirectCompute, CUDA, and OpenCL, but for the first time, ARM, AMD, Intel, nVidia, Imagination Technologies and Apple will be committing additional engineers to work together on developing a common open-source OpenCL front-end as a main part of the Clang/LLVM project. They will also be focusing on building back-ends that seamlessly target multiple heterogeneous hardware environments, allowing you to run compute kernels on CPU cores and different GPUs from different manufacturers simultaneously within the same system.

Also, Imagination Tech. just submitted first silicon for OpenCL EP certification. Expect OpenCL on mobile devices later this year.

http://www.imgtec.com/News/Release/index.asp?NewsID=610

http://blogs.arm.com/multimedia/263-why-opencl-will-be-on-every-smartphone-in-2014/

Clang/LLVM will be powering it all. This kind of cooperation among corporate players would never have happened with a GPL'd compiler.

Death to gcc! Hail clang!!

Guess it's time to learn OpenCL next.

Yay for proprietary drivers.

gcc
pronounced 'gucci'

>cancel transaction

>>4,6

GNU/Cocksuckers detected

>>7
/polecat kebabs/

>>1
Sun and IBM and Novell show otherwise.

>>9
Sun
U MENA ORACLE

If OpenCL becomes popular, I'm sure OpenGL will rise again and we'll get rid of DirectAnus.

>>10
No, I meant Sun. Oracle is a different beast.

>>11
Only hipsters will use DirectAnus.

>>12
You should get out more. Maybe even read the news a bit.

>>11
It's inevitable. In fact, it's already kind of happened. OpenGL is the most popular on smart mobile devices. It's pretty much the only choice--who the fuck uses a winmo phone anyway? Once smart devices supplant existing dumb-phones in usage, OpenGL and OpenCL will be quite popular.

Windows has been consistently seeing it's market share evaporate over the years.

>>15
2011 THE YEAR OF THE OPENGL SMARTPHONE

2011 - THE YEAR OF THE "LISP" SMARTPHONE

>>17
too lisp; didn't read

>>18
autist