Lua is faster than Fortran???

[geremy condra]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 7/9/2010 1:25 AM, sturlamolden wrote:
>
>> With OpenCL, Python is better than C for heavy computing. The Python
>> or C/C++ program has to supply OpenCL code (structured text) to the
>> OpenCL driver, which does the real work on GPU or CPU. Python is much
>> better than C or C++ at processing text. There will soon be OpenCL
>> drivers for most processors on the market.
>
> For those as ignorant as me, OpenCL = Open Computing Language (for parallel
> computing). Apple proposed, Khronos Group maintains spec (along with
> OpenGL), AMD, NVidea, Intel support.  Send C-like text to device, as with
> OpenGL; device compiles and runs; mainly for number crunching with all
> resources a machine has. OpenCL and OpenGL can work together. There is
> already a Python binding:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyopencl/

Its worth pointing out that right now you're generally better off with CUDA
than OpenCL, and that pycuda bindings are usable, if not what I would
call easy-to-use.

Geremy Condra