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piker on July 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust running on every GPU

> Existing no_std + no alloc crates written for other purposes can generally run on the GPU without modification.

Wow. That at first glance seems to unlock ALOT of interesting ideas.

boredatoms on July 26, 2025 [–]

I guess performance would be very different if things were initially assumed to run on a cpu

dvtkrlbs on July 26, 2025 | [–]

I think it could be improved a lot by niche optimization passes on the codegen backend. Kinda like the autovectorization and similar optimizations on the CPU backends.

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