ArrayFire Julia: Implementation of gfor?

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Hi!

Anyone knows how to implement something equivalent to gfor using the existing ArrayFire wrapper?
I guess gfor is not wrapped…

Regards,

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Hey Pedro,

So here’s the thing: the gfor in the arrayfire library is simply syntactic sugar for the vector operations.

For example, something like

@gfor for i = 1:10
a[i] = a[i] + 1
end

is essentially the same as a = a + 1.

Please refer to this page for more details.

Thanks,
Ranjan

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Dear Ranjan,

Thanks for your reply.
I need the gfor to do more complex things inside the for to save memory.

Julia does not find @gfor !

Regards,

4

Dear Ranjan,

I had not realized that there are several restrictions over the operations you can do inside the gfor.
Maybe gfor is not what I’m searching for…

Thanks again,

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Hey Pedro,

Since gfor is a simple syntax trick (which is why you see those restrictions), it is not going to save you memory. There are a few in place functions that ArrayFire.jl provides: fft!, ifft!, svdfact!, chol!, lufact! amongst others. Please do refer to the README on ArrayFire.jl to get that list.

I hope this helps,
Ranjan