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Can you give a short comparative with Theano?

• pavanky 12y ago
  I am not too familiar with Theano, but from what I can tell it is more focused towards Deep Learning. So I will refrain from comparing and will give you a short list about ArrayFire. - Supports multiple backends, so you can run on NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, Intel Xeon Phis, and all CPUs using the same API. - ArrayFire currently has statistics, image processing, signal processing and Linear algebra functions. We are planning to add Machine Learning and Computer Vision functions / algorithms in the near future. - ArrayFire is a native (C/C++) library. It can be used from other languages fairly easily. - The main goal is to make parallel programming in general (GPU programming in particular) easier and portable.
  • bch 12y ago
    I glanced for extern C clauses but didn't see them -- is C considered a first-class language to bind to this lib though ? update: Downloaded repo, grepped, found externs... looking forward to playing with this :)
    • pavanky 12y ago
      You can look at our headers to find the C api alongside the C++ API. Here is the image.h header file for example: https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire/blob/devel/include/af/image.h https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire/blob/devel/include/af... extern "C" is present on line 58.