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All the examples seem to use numbers (integers and floats). It would be interesting to see if it can work efficiently with variable-width strings, which is the
by perlgeek 14y ago
All the examples seem to use numbers (integers and floats). It would be interesting to see if it can work efficiently with variable-width strings, which is the main workload that I encounter. But even if not, I see the value working with lots of data.
- hippich 14y agoGPU is good at calculating stuff (nVidia in particular at calculating floats.) I do not see reasons to do text stuff with GPU
- qb45 14y agoGPUs had been used for some kind of fuzzy string matching [1] and worked well thanks to their huge memory bandwidth. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorith...