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Re:Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock by leereeves on Monday August 14, 2017 @10:44AM (#15008903)
Are those applications often bottlenecked by the CPU, as opposed to GPU or data transfer?
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Re:Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock by rspeer on Monday August 14, 2017 @11:05AM (#15009105)
The world of algorithms that run well on a CPU is still much, much bigger than the world of algorithms that run well on a GPU, even in machine learning.

And even if you're fortunate enough that Nvidia designs their GPUs to solve your problem, why should the CPU cores sit idle?

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