Comment by lazide

1 day ago

Which no one really does (data is generally provided at runtime). Which is why ‘super smart’ compilers kinda went no where eh?

I dunno. I was promised the same things when I started programming and it never materialised.

It doesn’t matter what people do or don’t do because this is a hypothetical feature of a hypothetical language that doesn’t exist.

  • huh?

    • You’re fixated on the very specific examples in our existing tools and saying that this wouldn’t work. Numpy could have a switch inside an operation decides whether to auto parallelise or not, for example. It’s possible but nobody is doing it. Maybe for good reasons, maybe for bad.

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