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How do you mean? Do you mean source code? What's vague about that?
by bertylicious 3y ago
How do you mean? Do you mean source code? What's vague about that?
- pama 3y agoExcept when writing in assembly, the compiler can make unintuitive decisions for how to transform our source code into something that runs on a particular hardware and as modern hardware complexity increases it becomes unlikely that a human can guess the exact code that will run. LLM is a higher level of abstraction than most existing programming languages, but the analogy of the GP is meaningful to me.
- kangalioo 3y agoGood point. When I'm going back and forth writing code and checking its assembly, I also reason about the compiler almost like an intelligent being: "oh, it doesn't see this condition, so if I help it a little bit, then... Ah now it unrolled, and inlined, but accidentally trashed instruction cache, how will I convince it not to..."