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In the linked post, the author tests Futhark running on the CPU without any parallelism or low-level optimizations, and it still beat GNU wc. Fair enough about
by OskarS 7y ago
In the linked post, the author tests Futhark running on the CPU without any parallelism or low-level optimizations, and it still beat GNU wc.
Fair enough about apples to oranges, but it was really distasteful to me that the top comment on this post was about how C is “unbeatable”, when the article clearly showed that Futhark was faster. And since we’re at the dawn of a new age of parallel computing, statements like that are absurd in general.
- mlyle 7y ago> In the linked post, the author tests Futhark running on the CPU without any parallelism or low-level optimizations, and it still beat GNU wc. Barely... It also mmaps in a whole 100 meg file. :P wc is not optimized to count as fast as possible, resource use be damned.