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by eholk 4735 days ago
It's basically defunctionalization. It's hard to get access to function pointers on the GPU to do "real" higher order functions.
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seanmcdirmid 4735 days ago
What version of CUDA are you talking about. I though the latest version supported indirect function pointers (finally).
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iskander 4735 days ago
That's good news! Did that change with Kepler? Any links to more info?
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iskander 4735 days ago
I wish they'd at least give us a computed goto...but alas, every switch is destined for predicated branching.
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