[Haskell-cafe] ANN: OpenCL 1.0.1.3 package

Luis Cabellos cabellos at ifca.unican.es
Thu Oct 6 10:13:32 CEST 2011


On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Jason Dagit <dagitj at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Luis Cabellos <cabellos at ifca.unican.es>
> wrote:
>
> > I understand your point. I didn't know the problems with cross module
> > inlining that Haskell suffers. I learned the BSD3, I think is a good  and
> > I'll change it on github and I'll put in the next release.
>
> Oh cool.  Thanks!  I think that's for the best.  Someone sent me a
> link to this offline:
> https://github.com/judah/HsOpenCL
>
> Maybe the two implementations can be merged into one super implementation
> :)


Thanks for the hint. It appears to be a good source (great source, far
better than OpenCL),  It's worth to follow it.


> I see.  My experience with the OpenGL bindings is that it can still be
> confusing for users of the library.  The reason is simple, there are
> good docs for using the API from C and those docs tend to match the
> official specification.  So people who are new to the Haskell bindings
> will need some documentation that explains how to go from the C API to
> the Haskell API.  Otherwise users will need to read the source code
> directly to figure out where the function they need to call is
> located.  Good haddocks help, but that's just one part of the
> solution.  Being able to search for the function by name is also
> useful, so that's why I proposed adding something on to the end of the
> function name.  So that people using search in their browser on the
> haddocks or using grep at the command line would find the function(s)
> they are looking for and (hopefully) minimize time spent searching.
>
> It's a shame because, if we had dependent types we could encode the C
> API directly into Haskell.
>
I'll think about, i put it in the issue.


> Thanks and I'll probably look at it some more this weekend.  I have a
> test program I'm working on but I would need to port it to your
> bindings.

Thank again, :)


> Also, if you use the #fun macro from c2hs to create the foreign
> imports you will need to use at least version 0.16.4 as previous
> versions do not honor stdcall.
>
> Jason
>
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