PresidentZippy

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1. 1.▲
   by PresidentZippy 3y ago

   Ok, now I'm learnding some interesting and/or valuable shit. I'm familiar with compiler intrinisics (e.g. __sync_add_and_fetch), but I just assumed (incorrectly) that "#pragma omp_parallel_for" was just a macro that
2. 2.▲
   by PresidentZippy 3y ago

   > 2x better is also a lot. I specifically drew the line at 2x. >It means that you only have to buy half as many servers. That's what I said in my initial comment: "Whether that means requiring half as much hardware to do the
3. 3.▲
   by PresidentZippy 3y ago

   Is there anything more to it than that? If not, the documentation would be a lot more helpful if it lead with something straight to the point. Here's something that could go directly under the title of the README: "This compiler c
4. 4.▲
   by PresidentZippy 3y ago

   The backend builds both x86_64 machine code, and GPU kernels/FPGA microcode according to their documentation, but that just begs another question: How is this significantly better than the existing tools for compiling C into GPU and FP
5. 5.▲
   by PresidentZippy 3y ago

   Not to crap on someone's hard work, but usually reinventing something is only warranted if you can do it >2x better than the best available solution. Whether that means requiring half as much hardware to do the same job or requiring