And OpenCL is just a generalization of the shader language. Jay
2011/5/11 Stephan Houben <[email protected]>: > Hi Stephen, > > On 05/11/2011 09:02 PM, Stephen Bloch wrote: >> >> My ideal interface would be a "for/parallel" form that executes the "for" >> body conceptually in parallel for each possible values of the loop >> variables. Even friendlier would be for the existing "for" forms to do that >> automatically until something order-dependent happens... but that seems very >> difficult to detect. By using "for/parallel", I would be promising the >> compiler that >> (a) no iteration of the for-loop depends on results computed by any other >> iteration of the for-loop, and >> (b) different iterations of the for-loop either don't mutate any of the >> same memory locations, or if they do, I don't care which one gets there >> first. > > This sounds like what an OpenGL (fragment) shader effectively does. > Can I plug my RacketGL package on Planet? > With this you can access GL shading language functionality from Racket. > > The shader itself though has to be written in GLSL. > No (subset of) Racket -> GLSL compiler. Yet. > > Stephan > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
