Curiosity Question: Is Support For M1 in the roadmap for this project?

[kwesiRutledge]

Hello!

Thank you for building this library! I am curious about using it in some of my current Julia projects and was wondering: Is there any interest in adding support for Macs to this library?

Why I was interested:
I see that Metal.jl is under active development and might be straightforward for an expert like yourself to integrate into this library.

Thank you for your time!

[pxl-th]

Hi! Nerf.jl relies on KernelAbstractions.jl for the backend-agnostic kernels.
If it supports Metal.jl (IIRC, not 100% yet), then it should be pretty easy to make it work on Macs.

I think atomics support is one of the missing things (I may be wrong though).

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Also, once Nerf.jl migrates to KernelAbstractions.jl 0.9+, lots of hacky things will go away.
Like having CUDA.jl & AMDGPU.jl directly in its dependencies.

[kwesiRutledge]

Very interesting. With this in mind, I'll be watching KernelAbstractions.jl and this project closely!

Thanks again for the effort you put into building this!

[pxl-th]

Thanks!