Comment by dtj1123
17 hours ago
Watch Chris Lattner's interview with Lex Fridman. He talks about mojo as a 36,000x speedup over Python without any indication that you need to think about vectorization to achieve it.
17 hours ago
Watch Chris Lattner's interview with Lex Fridman. He talks about mojo as a 36,000x speedup over Python without any indication that you need to think about vectorization to achieve it.
I'm looking at this transcript and I'm getting a different picture than what you describe https://podscripts.co/podcasts/lex-fridman-podcast/381-chris... . Yea, he doesn't specifically say vectorization and multi-threading or whatever but he also doesn't say you don't need some skill to get to huge speedups.
Does he say that you _do_ need skill to get huge speedups?
In fairness it's been a long time since I watched this, but I remember being struck by how obviously dishonest Lattner was throughout. For example at one point he talks about approachin mojo from a first principles perspective, using the speed of light as a limiting factor for what's computationally possible. Complete bullshit. You'd have to be working at the hardware layer for that to begin to be relevant, and even then photonic computation is years away. It's essentially technobabble.