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by anon4 3841 days ago
OpenCL always reminds me of "implementing the for keyword as a class in Java"... Yes, you can get pretty much the same semantics, but the code gets awfully unwieldy.

Compare to the CUDA alternative where a lot of this is implemented as extensions to C++ in nVidia's nvcc http://www.computer-graphics.se/hello-world-for-cuda.html