New language promises to reduce compilation times by using all threads and gpu cores available on your machine. What’s your opinions on it so far?

  • @[email protected]
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    1111 months ago

    reduce compilation times

    They mention nothing about compile times. This is about allowing the compiler to automagically run your code in multiple threads on CPU and GPU.

    It’s an interesting idea. I like the CPU/GPU abstraction but it’s going to have some learning curve to write code for it. I’m not in the niche it’s aimed at though so I can’t comment to it’s usefulness.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      That’s the interesting thing about HVM, you have 0 overhead multithreading. It happens automagically.

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        211 months ago

        And the fact that it’s seamless across both cpu and gpu is exciting. Most devs can probably hack out a half decent multi threaded cpu implementation. But gpu is far more complicated. Having one solution that works on both is very intriguing to me.