Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)?

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Am 01.09.2020 um 09:22 schrieb Christian Gollwitzer:
> Am 31.08.20 um 12:35 schrieb Roger L Costello:
>> Has the parsing community found a way to take advantage of GPUs?


> I have done some basic GPU programming, and I think that parsing is not
> a parallel task in that sense. The parser reads the input as a stream of
> tokens;

and acts *differently* depending on that input, while a GPU performs
essentially the *same* operation to all elements of a stream (merge,
scale...).

> you can't split the C file at some arbitrary point in half and
> parse both parts independently.

Multiple files can be parsed in parallel just with a multi-core CPU.
More parallel modules require more symbol tables etc., what limits the
amount of concurrent threads by available (cached!) memory.

DoDi

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Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2020-08-31 10:35 +0000
  Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2020-09-01 09:22 +0200
    Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2020-09-01 19:02 +0200
    Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2020-09-02 01:14 +0300
    Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com> - 2020-09-02 02:13 -0700
      Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2020-09-02 22:34 +0200
  Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? "A. K." <minforth@arcor.de> - 2020-09-01 01:25 -0700
    Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2020-09-02 05:43 +0000
  Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Elijah Stone <elronnd@elronnd.net> - 2020-09-01 20:13 -0700
    Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2020-09-02 11:45 +0000
  Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2020-09-02 17:57 +0300
  Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2020-09-09 14:09 -0700

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