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11 years ago

Channels vs looped memory accesses

With respect to channels, I'm trying to understand why the "channelized" version of simple single-stream I/O is beneficial over looped accesses to memory. If I have a single work-item kernel or work/...
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11 years ago

Hi Jack,

I was told that by our compiler team and the programming guide says there may be potential performance implications depending on the kernel. Both approaches are functionally identical.

Do you have a preference for one approach over the other, and if so, could you explain why?