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0 pointsDer_Einzige4y ago0 comments

This is why I find it so annoying that CS programs seem to worship functional programming (at least MY program did!).

No, I AM going to write procedural code, and it WILL be faster than your "high IQ" 1 line recursive solution. Also funny to see how little recursion gets used in CUDA/Pytorch/GPU programming - which is what we are seeing to be more and more important over time.

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Vetch4y ago· 1 in thread

Functional programming is a lot more than just recursion and there's nothing about GPUs that precludes an immutable first array based language with functional programming as core. Google Research's Dex is an example.

cookieater4y ago

Speaking of functional programming and GPU's - check out Futhark :D. Very on the fringe but very interesting.

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