<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":50k"> Sarcasm on --<br>
Yes, of course. It is essentially done, write it up and I want it on my desk by 8 AM Friday.<br>
-- Sarcasm off<br>
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So what if we know the primatives. How does it give us the "language" to express these kernels and the tools to do the processing?</div></blockquote></div><br><div>I hate C++ templates as much as the next guy, but I think they can do this without insanity. I think we could also do it with a handful of macro hacks and C inline functions.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sure, we might be able to make a cool DSL for expressing this stuff, but I'm afraid we'd end up spending more time and debugging confusion making it play with everything else than we'd gain by having the DSL in the first place.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I could be totally wrong.</div>