| For that to happen OpenCL has to be at the same level as CUDA in language support and tooling. Having C only wasn't a good idea. NVidia was quite clever in giving first class treatment to C++, Fortran and any compiler vendor that wished to target PTX. Also the visual debugging tools are quite good. Khronos apparently needed to be hit hard to realise that not everyone wants to be stuck with C for HPC in the 21st century. Also although Apple is the creator of OpenCL, they don't seem to give much love to it. Then you have Google caring about it's Renderscript dialect, which doesn't help to the overall uptake in OpenCL. There isn't a monopoly, rather vendors that lacked the perception to appeal to the developers wanted to have as tooling and performance. Anyone is free to go use OpenCL, use C or a language with a compiler with a C target, do printf debugging and feel free. Are any vendors already doing SPIR support? |