Re:Meta LLM Compiler: neural optimizer and disassembler
by pton_xd on Friday June 28, 2024 @04:44PM
(#40825090)
> It is normally not a necessary feature of a compiler to be determistic. A compiler should be correct against a specification.
That sounds like a nightmare. Optimizing code to play nice with black-box heuristic compilers like V8's TurboFan is, already in fact, a continual maintenance nightmare.
If you don't care about performance, non-deterministic compilation is probably "good enough." See TurboFan.
That sounds like a nightmare. Optimizing code to play nice with black-box heuristic compilers like V8's TurboFan is, already in fact, a continual maintenance nightmare.
If you don't care about performance, non-deterministic compilation is probably "good enough." See TurboFan.