Sulik

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1. 1.▲
   by Sulik 6y ago

   You can predict a pseudo-assembly output for a mental model of the architecture(s) you're targeting. It doesn't have to be an exact match, register allocation and all.
2. 2.▲
   by Sulik 6y ago

   CUDA is basically just C/C++ with parallel-programming concepts. The "alternatives" like OpenCL are still tied to their graphics API origins.
3. 3.▲
   by Sulik 6y ago

   One "CUDA core" is indeed one GPU thread. The lane of a GPU SIMD is nothing like CPU SIMD, and can independently branch (even if that branching can be much more expensive than on a CPU).
4. 4.▲
   by Sulik 6y ago

   To me, the philosophy of C (and even C++ before things became nuts) is that you should be able to reasonably guess the assembly code resulting from the C code, the idea being that you can write assembly code with much less typing. These day
5. 5.▲
   by Sulik 6y ago

   +1