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by syllogism 3153 days ago
Does this mean we could hook Cython up to NVPTX as the backend?

I've always thought it weird that I'm writing all my code in this language that compiles to C++, with semantics for any type declaration etc...And then I write chunks of code in strings, like an animal.
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nicwilson 3153 days ago
IDK about Cython, but I remember a blog post using Python's AST reflection to jit to LLVM ->NVPTX -> PTX. It's relatively simple to do, I've done it for LDC/D/DCompute[1,2,3]. It's a little tricker if you want to be able to express shared memory surfaces & textures, but it should still be doable.

[1] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc [2] dlang.org [3] http://github.com/libmir/dcompute

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jlebar 3152 days ago
Running code on the GPU usually isn't as easy as "compile and go", but...yeah, if you can emit LLVM IR, you can get PTX which you can run on the GPU.
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