One big reason to implement support for MacOS X!

[rtfss1gmail_com]

Hi,

I was thinking about MacOS X support and I believe you must support because basically Apple OpenCL CPU implementation has a big limitation it only admits workgroups of 1 element so really can't execute programs optimized to be run on GPUs where workgroups are minimally some multiple of wavefront size (AMD speaking) or warp size (Nvidia speaking) so tipically >=128 at least..

Also lots of CUDA code avaiable when ported to OpenCL will not run on MacOSX CPU backend for this very reason..

this renders the backend useless so I hope you port the backend..

Also you have advanced autovectorization,etc..

As in Macos X there isn't any ICD model I wouldn't have any objection linking to a Intel OCL library if that allows to use your efficient implementation..

Thanks

[ARNON_P_Intel]

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