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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by fixermark on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:33PM (#18124372)
It varies from application to application.

In my domain, we reach for the CUDA libraries to write the high-performance parts of our code. ;)

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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by iforgotpassword on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:50PM (#18124533)
That requires special Hardware in contrast to C code.
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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by fixermark on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @03:03PM (#18124651)
I spent like a thousand dollars on the box sitting under my desk; I'm pretty sure my C code runs on special hardware too. ;)

(and worth noting: if I pull out the special hardware you're thinking of from that box, my particular thousand-dollar-box is no longer able to run software I need because the GUI requires a graphics accelerator card. The OS authors have already reached for a subset of CUDA to optimize the parts of the GUI that needed optimization).

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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by pcwalton on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @05:17PM (#18125786)
Intel will not sell you an x86 processor without a GPU capable of compute these days.
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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by iforgotpassword on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @05:39PM (#18135058)
That will affect a raspberry pi user how?
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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by fixermark on Thursday October 04, 2018 @01:00AM (#18137306)
Raspberry Pi has a Videocore IV GPU on the chip.
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