an opencl binding - zcl/panama

[Ty Young]

On 1/24/20 5:23 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> Thanks for putting the time on doing the conversion work (bleeding 
> bonus point since we're in such an early stages) - and more 
> importantly, for writing all the feedback up. I will be reading that 
> carefully (and post some comments in here).
>
> This is what contributing looks like, kudos.


Excuse me?


I didn't realize your definition of "contributing" was literally 
creating native libraries from C - something you yourselves could and 
probably will do internally. I'm sorry, I guess? I've been speaking up 
for myself for the most part. There isn't a whole lot of information on 
what's going on with the project nor is the API itself feature complete. 
If I knew you wanted someone to do native API compatibility testing for 
you rather then comment on Memory Access API decisions I probably would 
have to begin with. I didn't realize as someone who has to use the API I 
couldn't do that. As someone else mentioned, adding all this to the JEP 
would be nice.


I've started working on bindings for NVML[1]. There isn't much to 
comment on since the library is just a bunch of samey function calls... 
so much so most of the function code is copy and pasted. The only thing 
that comes to mind is that I wish I could get rid of all the exceptions, 
but I doubt that can be or will be done so... yeah. This is all so basic 
it could be automated.


[1] 
https://github.com/BlueGoliath/GoliathBindings/tree/master/modules/org.goliath.bindings.nvml/src/main/java/org/goliath/bindings/nvml




>
> Thanks again
> Maurizio
>
> On 24/01/2020 03:45, Michael Zucchi wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've been waiting on work to organise themselves this year so i've 
>> had plenty more free time and it's been too cold to drink beer, 
>> alas.  Rather than poke the emailing list I've been busy porting zcl 
>> over to use jdk.incubator.foreign.
>>

* snip *


>> Cheers,
>>  Z
>>
>> * stairs in the way, broken hip, on crutches for last 3 months, 
>> nearly @#$@# over
>>