A Python library using the Futhark C backend via CFFI
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futhark-ffi
Python library using the Futhark C backend via CFFI
Futhark provides several compiler backends, futhark opencl
which is a C backend, and futhark pyopencl
which is a Python backend based on PyOpenCL. However, the host-side code of the Python backend is quite slow, leading to a lot of overhead when small, frequent kernels are used.
A solution to reduce this overhead is to use CFFI to used the C backend from Python, greatly reducing the calling overhead. The OpenCL code is the same, so this is not interesting for long-running kernels.
This library supports both futhark opencl
and futhark c
. Futhark arrays are mapped to and from Numpy arrays. Multiple outputs and multi-dimensional arrays are supported.
Installation
Install Futhark, then simply
pip install futhark-ffi
Usage
Generate a C library, and build a Python binding for it
futhark opencl --library test.fut
build_futhark_ffi test
Use the Python wrapper
import numpy as np
import _test
from futhark_ffi import Futhark
test = Futhark(_test)
res = test.test3(np.arange(10))
test.from_futhark(res)
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