Harlan Language Support

[Riblem]

Has anyone else looked into the Harlan Language from Erik Holk at University of Indiana. Its extremely new on the accelerator scene, but it looks like it has a lot of potential -- currently supporting NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD accelerators. It is LISP-ish in nature, very easy to pick up, and one can be running non-trivial programs in no time at all.

I'd be interested in hearing others thoughts on the possibility of developing support for Parallella.

Erik Holk:
Harlan:

[tincman]

I've very excited for Harlan (I am a scheme/lisp-nerd...), but have not had an opportunity to poke through it much yet. From what I understand it compiles to OpenCL, correct? Support may be as simple as setting a path to the Parallella OpenCL compiler.

Actually, quickly browsing it seems to be a "C/C++ as an intermediate language" compiler, so hopefully yeah, passing in the Parallella SDK should work? The downside however, is that petite chez scheme does not seem to support ARM, so either would have to cross compile, or (hopefully) someone will port Harlan to a different scheme.