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Bend creator Victor Taelin says slow CUDA and Metal compilation is delaying the launch of Bend2

Research engineer kache suggested Taelin write a custom compiler.

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Research engineer kache suggested Taelin write a custom compiler.

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Jakob@jakobdemlerTECH

@VictorTaelin Always err on the side of shipping!

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Taelin@VictorTaelinTECH

one last hard problem before Bend2 launch is GPU compilation times and this one seems tough because it isn't something I directly control. nvcc and metal are just unbearably slow past certain file size. not sure if I should just ship it like that