Refactoring kernel code into .cu/.c files

[jakirkham]

In a few cases, we have needed to include kernel code in strings in Python. It would be good to start refactoring this out into separate .cu/.c files that we load instead. This has the benefit that .cu/.c files are more familiar to developers and various tooling (linters/compilers/etc.). Also it can potentially be used in C/C++ code directly. Making this change could help with general maintainability & usability of the codebase going forward.

Originally posted by @jakirkham in #317 (comment)

[jakirkham]

As one example of this kind of change, please see commit ( 2608b2e ). There are some other CUDA or C/C++ codes in Python strs. It would likely be simple to refactor these out into .cu or .c/.cpp.

A separate, but related question would be how we would like to use these on the C++ side.

Edit: Here are a few more examples