[LLVMdev] OpenCL Frontend

Zack Rusin zack at tungstengraphics.com
Tue Dec 16 09:52:09 PST 2008


On Tuesday 16 December 2008 12:21:24 Timothy Baldridge wrote:
> There seems to be some interest these days in OpenCL. However for some
> projects, a issue they face to adopting OpenCL is requirements of
> maintaining two source trees: one for normal C code (for use on
> systems without OpenCL support or poor OpenCL performance) and another
> for OpenCL.
>
> I am interested in using LLVM to create a OpenCL frontend for
> multicore CPUs. Now that the spec is out, we have a pattern to follow.
> Does anyone have any interest in this?

Yes, we started implementing OpenCL on top of gallium using LLVM and Clang. 
We're planning to publish a public repository in the next week or so.

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