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

From	gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)?
Date	2020-09-09 14:09 -0700
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On Monday, August 31, 2020 at 9:44:53 PM UT
C-7, Roger L Costello wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am reading a book [1] on machine learning and the book says some pretty
> interesting things:
>
> "In the search for more speed, machine learning researchers started taking
> advantage of special hardware found in some computers, originally designed to
> improve graphics performance. You may have heard these called graphics cards.

The usual way to use a GPU is for single precision floating point.  They might also
be able to do fixed point of a reasonable size.

As above, parsing is usually fast enough.

GPUs are often enough used for dynamic programming, which is sometimes
used for optimization and code generation in compilers.  It might be that those
could use a speed boost. This might be more true for unusual architectures where
optimal code generation is more important.

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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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