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pjmlptoday at 10:49 AM1 replyview on HN

PTX is a bytecode format, the CUDA driver JIT compiles it when uploading into the cards.


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fc417fc802today at 11:21 AM

Can't the same also be said of much of the x86 vocabulary at this point?

I appreciate that we can upload SPIR-V directly. The API still feels overly obtuse but it's not so bad.

SYCL gets close but is language specific.