Welcome to Clyther’s documentation!

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Welcome to Clyther’s documentation!

CLyther is a Python tool similar to Cython and PyPy. CLyther is a just-in-time specialization engine for OpenCL. The main entry points for CLyther are its clyther.task and clyther.kernel decorators. Once a function is decorated with one of these the function will be compiled to OpenCL when called.

CLyther is a Python language extension that makes writing OpenCL code as easy as Python itself. CLyther currently only supports a subset of the Python language definition but adds many new features to OpenCL.

CLyther exposes both the OpenCL C library as well as the OpenCL language to python.

Objectives:
  • Make it easy for developers to take advantage of OpenCL
  • Take advantage existing Python numerical algorithms
  • Accelerate my code!
Philosophy:
  • Enable users to have 100% control via Python. Access one to one mapping from Python to OpenCL.
  • Endorse native Python abstractions for convenience. e.g. Slice an array, pass a function as an argument.

Warning

This is a brand new version of CLyther. I have not released this yet.

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