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As far as I am aware, this saying is based on the reasoning behind C types rather than serious compiler considerations. In today's world such cpu-specific conce
by darby_nine 2y ago
As far as I am aware, this saying is based on the reasoning behind C types rather than serious compiler considerations. In today's world such cpu-specific concerns are left to the compiler to figure out.
I'm sure you could contrive a language where this functionality is exposed, but I'm struggling to come with an example where this would be seriously beneficial across multiple platforms.
I strongly suspect that integrating editors of existing languages with tooling that informs programmers on how a given chunk of code performs with parallel execution units would be far more beneficial than inventing a language dedicated to such concerns at this time.
- naveen99 2y agoI guess that’s what intel and amd were relying on, while nvidia let cuda programmers control the gpu cache explicitly.
- darby_nine 2y agoI can't speak to CUDA or GPUs as I've never had a reason to use either. Perhaps we've finally left the land of the PDP.