I was wondering if anyone could point me to a more in-depth explanation
of why we are (currently) restricted to using a special-purpose
standard Prelude when writing vectorised code with DPH. We're
prototyping using several data-parallel languages for a research
project here at Northwestern University, and wanted to get a better
idea how we might go about adding vectorisation support for addtional
types/operations.
There are certain simple operations which don't appear to be
supported for primitive types yet (e.g. the ^ and ** operators for an
Int type). These are the kinds of things we'd like to look into as a
first step.
Also - there are several papers which mention foldP as being part of the (prospective) implementation, but I couldn't find this in any of the modules. Has this one not been implemented yet?
Much thanks,
James Swaine