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Re:Moving from Ruby to Rust by dnautics on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:22AM (#19168629)
>Julia it's harder for me to optimize the low level details.

It might be easier. How would you run your function on the GPU in rust?

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Re:Moving from Ruby to Rust by hobofan on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:43AM (#19169194)
By leveraging the LLVM NVPTX backend[0], which is I think the same way how you would do it in Julia?

[0]: https://github.com/japaric-archived/nvptx

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Re:Moving from Ruby to Rust by dnautics on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:35AM (#19169403)
In Julia you literally change your datatype from Array to GPUArray. Your code might (not always) literally change by 12 or so characters.
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