OpenCL

[Olivier Gagnon]

Hey all,

I would like to propose myself to develop and maintain

1. an OpenCL bindings.
2. a go-idiomatic layer on top of the bindings. 
   

If no one is opposed would it be possible to make a go-gl/cl repo and give me write access. This repo would be just for the 1:1 OpenCL bindings.
 my github is hydroflame, I'm also on the gophers slack.

https://github.com/hydroflame
https://github.com/luxengine

[Olivier Gagnon]

I forgot to mention, I take cross-platform very seriously so the bindings will be develop with all 3 major operating systems in mind. I can even test it since i have all 3 at home.

[Stephen Gutekanst]

I had talked with Olivier on Slack about this prior to him posting. Overall I think it's a good idea and sits well with the other repos. I'm in favor of creating and giving him ownership of the go-gl/cl repository.

Traditionally the go-gl packages are wrappers on top of the plain C API's without introducing any performance overhead or API changes to them (otherwise people will be tempted to create new "slimmer and faster" bindings). For this reason, I suggest keeping the go-idiomatic layer in a separate sub-package or something.

What do others here think? :)

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[unit0x03]

This all sounds excellent to me, as I've been really wanting a go-idiomatic binding layer for OpenCL. If Oliver's motivated and willing, then excellent!

[Peter Waller]

On 23/03/15 05:00, Stephen Gutekanst wrote:
> What do others here think? :)

SGTM.

[Dmitri Shuralyov]

Sounds great, thanks for stepping up to do this and fill in a missing piece! Everything you said SGTM.

One suggestion, you could do development on your personal github and when it's ready, transfer tHe repo to go-gl/cl org. That's how most existing libraries have ended up there.

Alternatively, if you do start with go-gl/cl, you could do development on non-master branch, and when it's ready, make a PR to merge to master.

Either way, we will get a chance to review the code when it's finished and ready for review.

Also, have you searched to check there are no OpenCL bindings anywhere else?

[Dmitri Shuralyov]

Any thoughts on these?

http://go-search.org/search?q=OpenCL

https://godoc.org/github.com/samuel/go-opencl/cl

I have no idea about their quality/status, just pointing it out since I didn't see it mentioned.

[Olivier Gagnon]

Yeah I'll look at what already exist for sure. I dont mind putting on my own github first but I'll put it on luxengine repo since its my computer graphic related stuff.

[Olivier Gagnon]

We also have to decide on what to do with the multiple version of OpenCL

go-gl/v1.0/cl
go-gl/v1.1/cl
go-gl/v1.2/cl

???

On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 12:48:29 AM UTC-4, Olivier Gagnon wrote:

[Stephen Gutekanst]

Yes. I think it should follow the same pattern as go-gl/glfw (the pattern you described).

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[Peter Waller]

Uh, I assume what was meant is go-gl/cl/v1.2/cl :)

On 23/03/15 18:19, Stephen Gutekanst wrote:

[Olivier Gagnon]

The samples are up and the drivers are 90% done.

https://github.com/hydroflame/gopencl/tree/master/sample

[Stephen Gutekanst]

Given his fast progress on the topic: I've gone ahead and created the go-gl/cl repository and given Olivier write access to it.

Cheers,

Stephen

[Olivier Gagnon]

The bindings are up on go-gl github. I'm still adding tests but everything should work as expected from now (version 1.2 only).