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0 pointsthesz4mo ago0 comments

  > something better than anything else in this category

That is a strong statement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_(programming_language)

Id [1] was run on the CM-5 (then) supercomputer and demonstrated superlinear parallel speedups on some of the tasks. That superlinear speedup was due to better cache utilization on individual nodes.

In some of the tasks the amount of parallel execution discovered by Id90 would lead to overflow of content-addressable memory and Id90's runtime implemented throttling to reduce available parallelism to make things to be done at all.

Does the PAPER of HVM refers to Id (Id90 to be precise)? No, it does not.

This is serious negligence of Taelin.

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killerstorm4mo ago

I mean their code synthesis thing (i.e. "generate function code from input-output pairs") is better than anything from academia by many orders of magnitude. But it's not published yet.

I dunno why you choose to be so critical. Taelin isn't really selling his stuff, and his previous stuff was just an open source experiment. It's not an academic paper which claims something. And HVM1 is irrelevant now.

Their new stuff isn't about general performance but code synthesis

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