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Asked: 2026-06-16T10:46:53+00:00

I’m looking for a way to use OpenCL nicely in Haskell, and found these

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I’m looking for a way to use OpenCL nicely in Haskell, and found these slides (alternative source) by Benedict Gaster. They mention an impressive “HOpenCL Contextual API” but I can’t find anything tangible.

The only thing coming close to the C quasiquotation shown seems to be language-c-quote and its OpenCL-C support ends with the types, it doesn’t support the extra keywords.

And accelerate is something completely different, and mainly for CUDA, with the OpenCL backend in early alpha.

Then there’s HIPERFIT where no code was posted for a year (but the project is still running), which seems to combine the C quasiquotation and OpenCL, their bindings are even called HOpenCL, but are just a wrapper, nothing to see of the monadic transforms etc.

None of this seems close to finished and ready to build upon…

Any news or other projects I missed?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I was looking for exactly the same thing, and I came across this: https://github.com/bgaster/hopencl

    This must be what Benedict Gaster – who is not working for AMD anymore – was talking about. There is not a tremendous amount of activity on the git, but there was an update about 2 months ago, which is still better than a year.

    EDIT: Actually J. Garret Morris (the other author of HOpenCL) created a fork: https://github.com/jgbm/hopencl

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