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Comment by fwip

2 months ago

Not really applicable to ML. The massive amount of compute running on the GPU is not executing in Python, and is basically the same regardless of host language.

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robomartin  2 months ago

There's a lot of non-GPU hardware surrounding every kind of data center. If this is coded in Python, it is using 70x more energy than C.

  • fwip  2 months ago

    Not in any meaningful way, no.

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