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The writers could still turn out to be right. I am not sure we are making good use of all that hardware yet.
by pdimitar 3y ago
The writers could still turn out to be right. I am not sure we are making good use of all that hardware yet.
- MegaSec 3y agoDamm high level programming languages. Just go back to assembly, that'll fix everything.
- pdimitar 3y agoYeah how dare they. ;) Truth be told though, I believe we are in for some more innovation in the area, especially with the advent of ARM lately. It's always kinda funny how these mega-machines we have still manage to stutter.
- SmellTheGlove 3y ago> It's always kinda funny how these mega-machines we have still manage to stutter. I just figured that’s the trade-off for general purpose computing. We can optimize for whatever covers the wide swath of use cases, but we can’t optimize for everything, and some will continue to be mutually exclusive. Mind you I’m no expert, I’m just extrapolating on how differently what CPUs and GPUs are optimized for these days and historically.
- pdimitar 3y agoNah you are very correct, I just feel that our compilers can still do a better job with the general purpose code because they are usually completely blind to the systems the compiled code runs in (as in, I/O takes orders of magnitude more time for example and this can be used to auto-parallelize code; but I know compiler authors will never auto-spawn threads). I feel this can be improved a lot but for various (and likely good) reasons our tooling is not as good as it can be.
- SmellTheGlove 3y agoGood points. I wish I knew more about compilers sometimes, and this is one of those times.
- automatic6131 3y ago>I am not sure we are making good use of all that hardware yet. Dunno, working out the color of 8 million pixels every 6ms seems pretty good to me
- pdimitar 3y agoTrue, though I was talking about the AI workloads.
- koolba 3y agoThe only thing keeping us alive is that skynet is an electron app.