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> exaflop computations Most certainly written in c++ > and AIs that can slaughter humans at almost any strategy game. Guess in what language is trnsorflow wr

• titzer 7y ago
  > Most certainly written in c++ Totally beside the point! Actually, FORTRAN mops the floor with C++ when it comes to bigtime numerical computations on supercomputers. And they're all running kernels written in good ole C. Most of the FAANGs are running absolute shittons of Java, Javascript, PHP, and Python. Also running kernels written in C. > Guess in what language is trnsorflow written Derp, tensorflow has to interact with GPU drivers which are all C++ interfaces. Btw it generates shader code which is definitely not C++, but some weird vendor languages, which don't have any of this move constructor related garbage. > Bitcoin Ditto Actually the vast majority of bitcoin's computational load is done by ASICs. Congratulations, you missed the whole point. My point wasn't what languages those things are written in (your Red Herring, not mine), but the fact that we spend an absolute metric shitton of computation on other things, but still expect slow, dumb programmers to fret over niggling details, usually screwing it up in the process, when this task would be far better served by throwing some god damn computational resources at it--you know the ones we waste on O(N^2) compilation tasks and parsing header files over and over and over again.... sigH