What is the Bend programming language for parallel computing? Let's take a first look at Bend and how it uses a Python-like syntax to write high performance ...
the “will linearly speedup anything [to the amount of parallel computation available]” claim is so stupid that I think it’s more likely they meant “only has a linear slowdown compared to a basic manual parallel implementation of the same algorithm”
The github blurb says the language is comparable to general purpose languages like python and haskell.
Perhaps unintentionally, this seems to imply that the language can speed up literally any algorithm linearly with core count, which is impossible.
If it can automatically accelerate a program that has parallel data dependencies, that would also be a huge claim, but one that is at least theoretically possible.
If it can automatically accelerate a program that has parallel data dependencies, that would also be a huge claim, but one that is at least theoretically possible.
You nailed it! That’s exactly what this is! Read through their README, and the paper attached. It’s very cool tech
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@eveninghere @ruffsl that claim’s correct. But so far it doesn’t have great performance on a single core.
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the “will linearly speedup anything [to the amount of parallel computation available]” claim is so stupid that I think it’s more likely they meant “only has a linear slowdown compared to a basic manual parallel implementation of the same algorithm”
Good thing they don’t claim that. Read the README, they make very nuanced and reasonable claims about their very impressive language
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The github blurb says the language is comparable to general purpose languages like python and haskell.
Perhaps unintentionally, this seems to imply that the language can speed up literally any algorithm linearly with core count, which is impossible.
If it can automatically accelerate a program that has parallel data dependencies, that would also be a huge claim, but one that is at least theoretically possible.
You nailed it! That’s exactly what this is! Read through their README, and the paper attached. It’s very cool tech