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Jonathan Blow

On The Metal

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GPU Programming Is a Different Kind of Acceleration Than CPU Programming Right So CPU Talking to GPU Is Slow GPU Talking Back to CPU Is Slow

The main kind of acceleration that we might use today is a typical consumer PC or game console has a pretty serious GPU. The graphics processor on it probably has more transistors than the CPU right yes. It's set up to do a different kind of a job I don't really think of it as non von Neumann, it just wants to have a lot more threads working than a typical yeah.

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