Lol , this is basically how I roll most the time . However what Linux is really missing right now is command line tools that saturate a GPU.
Just counterparts to all the favourites that utilise the GPU ... imagine GPU awk.
Just counterparts to all the favourites that utilise the GPU ... imagine GPU awk.
My intuition tells me that awk and other text processing tools won’t scale well to a GPGPU. I might be wrong though. Is there any example of something like grep etc working well on a GPU?
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15418-s12/www/c...
I would have expected a GPU regex too perform much worse, given that regex matching is probably very branchy code. Especially since computation is generally way faster than IO.
What's at play here is that the needle in a haystack search of regex is going to spend almost all its time 0 or 1 deep in the state machine, so the threads skip the branches and the penalty is not large.
But as to your question, a lot of traditional tools like grep, sed, aren't really suited for the GPU unless you are running them on a lot of files at once.
AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to GPU self-host APL (youtube.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797797