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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

Thank you! I'll try. What if I have 2d work groups instead of for loops, where each thread copies 1 item from the global memory to local memory? Would the compiler automatically merge memory accesses? Is using "num_simd_work_items" the only way to optimize the kernel?