Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: hobold (hobold.delete@this.vectorizer.org), August 3, 2010 4:48 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Richard Cownie (tich@pobox.com) on 8/2/10 wrote:
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>And any such software effort would give a benefit only
>for the subset of users who have the appropriate GPU
>hardware - which gets you back to the original problem.
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No matter which language you program in, no matter which hardware you run on, this has always been true and will always remain true. I guess algorithmic knowledge will become more important again, and parameterized source codes will be what separates code tuning hobbyists from professionals.
In the cases where performance matters at all.
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[...]
>And any such software effort would give a benefit only
>for the subset of users who have the appropriate GPU
>hardware - which gets you back to the original problem.
>
No matter which language you program in, no matter which hardware you run on, this has always been true and will always remain true. I guess algorithmic knowledge will become more important again, and parameterized source codes will be what separates code tuning hobbyists from professionals.
In the cases where performance matters at all.
