alt Hacker NewsUsing the naming from one of the existing API would put too much bias towards that API. It started as a WebGPU project early on, but some features are not present so mixing terms wasn't ideal. We're also working on extending CubeCL to CPU, so we want terms not only tied to the GPU word.
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Thread, group, workgroup.
There you go you've hit basically two of 3 completely (AMD and Vulkan) and are close enough to CUDA that people would get it.
I have no idea what a plane connotes and a cube literally gives a distinct enough picture from block that I will be continuously reminding myself of the mapping.
What you did was pointless - you assigned new words to objects that you don't own and now your conceptual framework is askew from the actual underlying (true) conceptual framework.
> CubeCL to CPU
There is zero affinity between GPU programing models and multicore CPU programing models. If you don't believe me go ask the OpenMP people how they're doing supporting GPUs.
Why unit instead of point?
Unit, plane (as vs train), and cube?
Or point, plane, cube (1d, 2d, 3d)?