Declaring Lua data types for GPU code generation
Paulo Motta · 2017
Some effort has been employed to allow interpreted languages to be able to take advantage of the computing capabilities of GPUs. Using interpreted languages allows to abstract the hardware and its specificities away from the user application, making development less complicated. However, due to hardware dependencies, the code needs to be compiled before execution. We want to compile a Lua function into a GPU kernel as transparently as possible, allowing the user to access the underlying hardware, without the complexities related to the traditional GPU programming. This scenario presents a great challenge on how to infer the variables data types while interfering as little as possible on the user programming paradigm.