what is raw assembly? can't understand it? that's the point!
Raw assembly vs cooked assembly?
Also, I think this attitude wasn’t the most common on CPUs, and people used to write assembly by hand just fine (and sometimes some still do). I think we shouldn’t be afraid of assembly like that.
Compilers could write that assembly in the end, just like the do for CPUs!
Yeah, comments like these really make you question the authors' background in optimization. Never mind that AMD actually publishes ISA specs for all of their graphics IPs -- it is not their point that you don't understand it -- what's holding GPU programming back is often that the underlying assembly primitives are not exposed in the high level languages.
I also do wonder what 'raw assembly' is supposed to be. Is it like sushi? Perhaps it is left as future work in the paper for the authors to answer.
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Raw assembly vs cooked assembly?
Also, I think this attitude wasn’t the most common on CPUs, and people used to write assembly by hand just fine (and sometimes some still do). I think we shouldn’t be afraid of assembly like that.
Compilers could write that assembly in the end, just like the do for CPUs!
Yeah, comments like these really make you question the authors' background in optimization. Never mind that AMD actually publishes ISA specs for all of their graphics IPs -- it is not their point that you don't understand it -- what's holding GPU programming back is often that the underlying assembly primitives are not exposed in the high level languages.
I also do wonder what 'raw assembly' is supposed to be. Is it like sushi? Perhaps it is left as future work in the paper for the authors to answer.