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Does that mean that an A100 can scrape 9.75M websites in the time it takes my python script to scrape 1 website?

• vengefulduck 5y ago
  No Flops are floating point operations. GPUs are better at them because they run floating point operations in parallel on thousands of optimized cores. While python will run a floating point operation serially on (likely) a single general purpose CPU core. None of this really pertains to websites where the main bottle neck is IO so python is as good as anything else.
  • sundarurfriend 5y ago
    I think it's a joke, they're likely aware of what you said. It's also possibly a sarcastic way of pointing out what you said, that a lot of things Python is used for are things where the main bottle neck is IO, so things like this should be read with such context taken into account.