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GPU are optimized for number crunching. Do they get used at all for string processing? I ask because I develop data wrangling software and most of it is string
by hermitcrab 2y ago
GPU are optimized for number crunching. Do they get used at all for string processing? I ask because I develop data wrangling software and most of it is string processing (joins, concatenations, aggregations, filtering etc), rather than numerical.
- TheDudeMan 2y agoDo you have millions of strings that need to be manipulated in the same way at the same time?
- hermitcrab 2y agoYes. For example, you might want to change a column of 10 million strings from upper case to lower case. Or concatenate 2 columns to create a third column. It is not clear to me this would be any faster on a GPU.
- hermitcrab 2y agoAlso, you might want to create a hash table from a million values in a column, so you can use this for a join.