Recursion Question about future support for recursion in CUDA

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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I understood for one of the presenters of the current CUDA webinars that Nvidia is working on support for recursion in CUDA.
Is there a timeline for when recursion will be available yet?
And will this require new hardware?

Thanks!
Colt

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It’s possible that recursion may be possible with future hardware, but the performance is too bad for it to make sense with current hardware (you can put a stack in local memory, but it’s slow).

Note that it’s always going to be faster to convert a recursive algorithm to an iterative one if you can.

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Thanks!

Colt