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11 years ago

About Altera OpenCL Compilation

Hello everyone, I am just wondering if anyone know the difference between compiling kernels in Linux or Windows (in term of run-time performance and total compilation time). I know i could use ...
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11 years ago

What Mike is saying about the banking and column-wise relationship is true. However, if you are just iterating over the entire array by accessing consecutive elements, my money would be on the row-by-row access pattern. If you iterate over the entire row elements and unroll this loop, the compiler will merge the consecutive accesses into very efficient wider accesses.