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JackMorgan on May 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via...

Here is an example of it summing a huge set of numbers 100x faster than in C.

https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/bend/blob/main/GUIDE.md#par...

ashdnazg on May 17, 2024 [–]

Note that it's not 100x faster than C, but than bend running on one CPU thread.

Running the equivalent C code takes ~2.3 seconds on my machine. Same order of magnitude as bend on the beefy GPU.

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