Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28
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I know OpenCL itself is a lot of work and then the applications SW, but Gallium enables the start of the work, one day.
"a lot" is something of an understatement. It's sort of like writing a new OS and a compiler for it.
Gallium probably doesn't help that much but you will need some way of sending kernels to the GPU.
I don't know if there is an open source implementation but you'll find bits of it in the LLVM/clang compiler set. Some of the grand central dispatch stuff is also opensource.
Once you have all that lot then you have to write something in it, it's not the easiest of languages to program in.
