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Karpinski: Alternating language layers in AI frameworks prevents compiler optimizations
“They have what I've, I would describe as a sandwich problem, which is that you end up sandwiching a lot of system code with user code, and then, like, adding more and more layers of that, and as you've sandwiched, like, you know, seven or eight layers of that,…”
Stefan Karpinski Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 6:39 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
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Karpinski: Automatic dynamic code translation fails due to edge cases
“The trouble is when you get into automatic translation, it's always the corner cases that kill you. And the corner cases that kill you with automatic translation are actually exactly the reasons why you can't just sit down and be like, oh, let's just make Pyth…”
Stefan Karpinski Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 24:59 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
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