Optimizing Performance in Futhark: The Role of Profiling Tools
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jmillikin
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Summary
The article discusses the challenges of optimizing performance in the Futhark programming language, a high-performance, purely functional data-parallel array language. It highlights the importance of profiling tools to identify and address inefficiencies in programs, focusing on how profiling has evolved in Futhark.
Key quotes
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A useful tool for answering such questions is a profiler - a tool that tells you how long the different parts of your program take to run.
This post is about how profiling in Futhark became slightly better.
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