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> what is raw assembly? can't understand it? that's the point! Raw assembly vs cooked assembly? Also, I think this attitude wasn’t the most common on CPUs, an
by jiehong 11mo ago
> what is raw assembly? can't understand it? that's the point!
Raw assembly vs cooked assembly?
Also, I think this attitude wasn’t the most common on CPUs, and people used to write assembly by hand just fine (and sometimes some still do). I think we shouldn’t be afraid of assembly like that.
Compilers could write that assembly in the end, just like the do for CPUs!
- yunnpp 11mo agoYeah, comments like these really make you question the authors' background in optimization. Never mind that AMD actually publishes ISA specs for all of their graphics IPs -- it is not their point that you don't understand it -- what's holding GPU programming back is often that the underlying assembly primitives are not exposed in the high level languages. I also do wonder what 'raw assembly' is supposed to be. Is it like sushi? Perhaps it is left as future work in the paper for the authors to answer.