Jan Stephan

Intel introduced this feature as a SYCL extension: https://github.com/intel/llvm/blob/sycl/sycl/doc/extensions/C-CXX-StandardLibrary/C-CXX-StandardLibrary.rst So I guess they are currently debating this internally among implementers.

Yes, this is possible for the CPU device: ```c++ using Host = alpaka::DevCpu; using HostQueue = alpaka::Queue; // CPU host auto const host = alpaka::getDevByIdx(0u); INFO("using alpaka device: "

Ah, I didn't read your question properly. No, it isn't possible to create a queue without a device (what would it be connected to?), only the other way around (device...

> I'm not sure, if there is accelerator object (maybe you can create one, but it will not used anywhere). Accelerator objects cannot be created by the user. They only...

I don't see a reason for our objects to not be move-assignable. The semantics are clear here IMO. Copy-assignable is a different matter. We should probably take the time and...

I prefer to stay with the originally intended way of shallow copies. We "just" need to document this better. As part of our documentation rework we could maybe come up...

I don't think this is the right approach. We should probably use `ExternalProject`(https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.18/module/ExternalProject.html) instead.

What is the state here?

> So there is nothing I can do here for now. Okay. What do you plan to do in the mid- to long term? It might take a while until...

Yes: I don't see why that is immediately necessary. I rarely (if ever) spend much time reading the top few lines of a source file. IMO the time required to...