What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (codeconfessions.substack.com)
from abhi9u@lemmy.world to programming@programming.dev on 19 Oct 2023 13:00
https://lemmy.world/post/7021158

A primer on GPU architecture and computing

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ck_@discuss.tchncs.de on 21 Oct 2023 12:58 collapse

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 on 21 Oct 2023 16:20 collapse

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 on 22 Oct 2023 11:19 collapse

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