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Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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  1. revengerwizard · · focus · HN ↗
    I think it would be much nicer, although unrealistic at the moment given the number of combinations of GPU vendors and variety of hardware, to directly target the underneath GPU ISA machine code.

    Since I can write a simple compiler to target x64 machine code, it should be possible to write one to target my GPU.

    Though, I'm certain that vendor lock is probably more profitable for them.

    1. matthewfcarlson · · focus · HN ↗
      I don’t know for sure but I’m pretty sure the ISA changes quite frequently for Nvidia.
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