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14 Sept 2023 Latent Space Doing it the Hard Way: Making the AI engine and language πŸ”₯ of the future β€” with Chris Lattner of Modular

β€œI'll share with you is that starting from CPU, starting from the general thing that you then specialize leads to these design points, for example, in Mojo, where you say, okay, well, if I care about high performance data loading, that needs to be super parallel.”

β€” Chris Lattner

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Chris Lattner
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14 Sept 2023
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Latent Space

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…One of the other things I'll share with you is that starting from CPU, starting from the general thing that you then specialize leads to these design points, for example, in Mojo, where you say, okay, well, if I care about high performance data loading, that needs to be super parallel. I care about disks being parallel and network being parallel and async and all this stuff that needs to be safe, right? And so with Swift, we built a memory-safe parallel programming abstraction called Actors. We've built all this stuff. And so being able to take the lessons learned from building it the first time…

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