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Re:Gollvm from Google by marmaduke on Saturday May 27, 2017 @10:45AM (#14430262)
This means we could write numerical code in Go and get auotvectorized assembly and use GPUs via the nvptx backend. Neat!
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Re:Gollvm from Google by theparanoid on Saturday May 27, 2017 @03:03PM (#14431412)
Go is a GC language. Only a strict subset would be amenable to running on a GPU.
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Re:Gollvm from Google by pinpeliponni on Saturday May 27, 2017 @04:51PM (#14431913)
There's no reason GC couldn't work on GPUs. No one just has bothered implementing it yet.
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Re:Gollvm from Google by TheDong on Saturday May 27, 2017 @07:14PM (#14432375)
http://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler

Yeah, and a GPU could also just happen to give you the right answer in an O(1) hashtable lookup

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Re:Gollvm from Google by marmaduke on Sunday May 28, 2017 @01:49AM (#14433245)
If you noticed, I did say numerical algorithms, for most of which it's usually easy to allocate memory in advance.

I didn't mean anyone would want to do this but just that it's an interesting parallelism for a language.

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