> They did not include the time it took to transfer the input file from memory to the GPU Fair point, it's more support for this HN post[2] making the case for

> They did not include the time it took to transfer the input file from memory to the GPU Fair point, it's more support for this HN post[2] making the case for memory-mapping files to GPU. > This is a neat project, but there is a reason we are not using the GPU for regex matching. I think it's more interesting that it's a general facility for running automata on a GPU, as it's opening up the universe of things that can be accelerated by a GPU. For instance, Numba[1] is a library to run arbitrary math code, and it has a feature for generating code to run on the GPU. [1]: http://numba.pydata.org/numba-doc/latest/cuda/index.html http://numba.pydata.org/numba-doc/latest/cuda/index.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11892030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11892030