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They mention nothing about compile times. This is about allowing the compiler to automagically run your code in multiple threads on CPU and GPU.
It's an interesting idea. I like the CPU/GPU abstraction but it's going to have some learning curve to write code for it. I'm not in the niche it's aimed at though so I can't comment to it's usefulness.
That's the interesting thing about HVM, you have 0 overhead multithreading. It happens automagically.
And the fact that it's seamless across both cpu and gpu is exciting. Most devs can probably hack out a half decent multi threaded cpu implementation. But gpu is far more complicated. Having one solution that works on both is very intriguing to me.