HCC Wants To Make It Easy To Run C11 Code On GPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: HCC Wants To Make It Easy To Run C11 Code On GPUs

The Hero C Compiler "HCC" wants to make it easy to compile C code to run on GPUs by compiling common C11 code and turning it into SPIR-V modules that can then be consumed by GPUs with Vulkan support...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hero-C-Compiler-HCC

[Quackdoc]

I love projects like these will have to keep an eye on it

[dev_null]

the idea is right. I coded shaders in Metal on Mac OS so there there shader language is almost C++ what is super brain saving

[ryao]

Getting C code to be performant on a GPU might be hard unless it supports extensions to C like OpenMP or GNU C’s vector extension to get explicit information for vectorization.

That said, you can already compile C code to SPIR-V using LLVM:

https://llvm.org/docs/SPIRVUsage.html