Re: [swarm-hackers] Swarm on MacOS 10.6 Snow Leopard

[Scott Christley]

On Sep 18, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> Scott Christley wrote:
> > OpenCL struck me as well, especially now that they have the on-the- 
> > fly compilation/linking/loading (I've been wanting this for years!).
> I've been using the Snow Leopard implementation for a few months,  
> and more recently the AMD/ATI 2.0 stream SDK.   I agree the on-the- 
> fly compilation is a real win, if for no other reason than to  
> perfect loop unrolling.  Both are LLVM-based but unfortunately there  
> is no viable open-source answer.

Yeah I've been using CUDA so that I can push my code to Linux box, mmm  
4 GTX 295's packed on a motherboard, sweetness :-D  I heard Nvidia has  
released OpenCL for linux to its developers, not sure when a public  
release will happen though, nor whether it will be as tightly  
integrated as the Apple solution.

The on-the-fly compilation can produce CPU code too right?  Do you  
know how it handles the name space?  If you compile a function with an  
existing name, does it just fail or does it replace?  So if you wanted  
to do genetic programming and produce actual code, would you have to  
uniquify functions names?  There is the code bloat issue too if  
created lots of functions, but if they have an unload feature then  
that would work.