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What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (codeconfessions.substack.com)
submitted 10 months ago by abhi9u@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev
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A primer on GPU architecture and computing

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[-] ck_@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I guess I have to reject the premise of the article as such.

Most programmers have an intimate understanding of CPUs and sequential programming because they grow up writing code for the CPU

This is clearly not the case. Most programmers know next to nothing about CPU and rely on the compiler or the runtime / VM to make "computer go beep boop". And they are fine with it, because they don't feel like they need to know either. Hence, the premise that " everyone should know about GPU programming" cannot possibly have merit.

[-] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

You are most certainly correct

"What every developer needs to know about X" is just the best way to get clicks these days

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Then they are shitty random articles, sometime with a very dumb tutorial in it. Whenever my coworkers sent articles like this my eyes start rolling so hard I could use them to produce energy

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