yogishbaliga

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   by yogishbaliga 11mo ago

   It is also other features such as GitHub workflow, releases, integration with other tools, webhooks etc. that makes it useful.
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   by yogishbaliga 1y ago

   If it is unified memory, CPU can access the result of GPU processing without copying it to CPU memory (theoretically)
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   by yogishbaliga 1y ago

   Way back in time, I used delta encoding for storing posting list (inverted index for search index). I experimented with using GPUs for decoding the posting list. It turned out that, as another reply mentioned copying posting list from CPU m
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   by yogishbaliga 1y ago

   Very true, but in recent years feature development has taken precedence over efficiency. VP of whatever says hardware is cheap, software engineers are not.