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by galapago 4237 days ago
Can you give a short comparative with Theano?
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pavanky 4237 days ago
I am not too familiar with Theano, but from what I can tell it is more focused towards Deep Learning. So I will refrain from comparing and will give you a short list about ArrayFire.

- Supports multiple backends, so you can run on NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, Intel Xeon Phis, and all CPUs using the same API.

- ArrayFire currently has statistics, image processing, signal processing and Linear algebra functions. We are planning to add Machine Learning and Computer Vision functions / algorithms in the near future.

- ArrayFire is a native (C/C++) library. It can be used from other languages fairly easily.

- The main goal is to make parallel programming in general (GPU programming in particular) easier and portable.

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bch 4237 days ago
I glanced for extern C clauses but didn't see them -- is C considered a first-class language to bind to this lib though ?

update: Downloaded repo, grepped, found externs... looking forward to playing with this :)

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pavanky 4237 days ago
You can look at our headers to find the C api alongside the C++ API.

Here is the image.h header file for example: https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire/blob/devel/include/af...

extern "C" is present on line 58.

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