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Re:The Idea of Lisp by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:46PM (#13195631)
Wouldn't it be harder to get Lisp to run in a GPU, though?

Or perhaps my point is, wouldn't it be harder to get old-style (symbolic) AI to run in a GPU than ML-style AI? (If I understand correctly, the old style is a lot of walking data structures, and the new style is largely matrix operations. The latter seems like a much better fit for a GPU than the former.)

Re:The Idea of Lisp by pjmlp on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:58PM (#13195737)
Well, the Connection Machine was highly parallel.

Also the declarative way of programming in languages like Lisp, and also the macros, would surely allow for nice expressive DSLs.

So far I am only aware of companies exploring Haskell and F# support for GPUs, but I guess it is usually a matter of someone trying it out.

After all, there is FPGA tooling generation support for Clojure already,e.g. Piplin.

Re:The Idea of Lisp by tmpLisp on Friday December 16, 2016 @06:59PM (#13198022)