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Gpgpu, ML Inference, and Vulkan Compute (lei.chat)
3 points by ArtWomb on Aug 4, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Well the Android devices might ship OpenCL, but what is exposed to app developers is Renderscript.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/renderscript/comp...

And even with Android 12 deprecating Renderscript and pushing for Vulkan, the tooling for app developers just isn't there.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/renderscript/migr...

Google expects Java and Kotlin app developers to now deal with the mess of using Vulkan in the NDK by themselves, as in typical Google fashion to provide a basic set of samples, in C and C++ for developers mostly used to Java and Kotlin development workflows, and then good luck!

https://github.com/android/renderscript-samples/tree/main/Re...

So don't expect much update in the Android ecosystem regarding Vulkan Compute.




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