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The nice thing is that for GPUs you're rarely writing directly against the metal but instead pseudocode lowered by the driver; the driver could know to just low
by jmalicki 1mo ago
The nice thing is that for GPUs you're rarely writing directly against the metal but instead pseudocode lowered by the driver; the driver could know to just lower it this way. On an NVidia GPU they control the whole stack and don't need to get a further ecosystem going there. Possibly the same for Apple.
- ghaff 1mo agoApple is such a vertical stack, I'm not sure how to generalize from that. Certainly the same was true on IBM mainframes. And, when I wrote open source, I could probably have written abstraction more broadly.
- jmalicki 1mo agoI am thinking the first place this appears is on GPUs and maybe Apple with unified memory, it is not going to be on PCs.