[LLVMdev] GPU back-ends?

Dustin Laurence dllaurence at dslextreme.com
Mon Apr 5 16:01:07 PDT 2010


I have a silly question for some possible future work.  It looks to me 
like Apple uses LLVM for both OpenGL and OpenCL code generation.  Does 
that mean that there are GPU back-ends available for use by front-ends? 
  I looked in llvm/lib/Target and saw a Cell SPU target but nothing I 
recognized as targeting a GPU.

If there is a prospect for IR -> GPU compilation, that would allow for 
some...interesting possibilities in the future.

Dustin



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