zero cost abstractions exist. doesn't mean all abstractions are zero-cost. or being zero-cost somehow invalidates their abstractness/genericness. but maybe we differ on the definition of abstractions.
So does perpetual motion :shrug: but my point is Triton is not an abstraction in the least. Source: 1) I spent 6 months investigating targeting other backends 2) Phil himself said he doesn't care to support other backends https://github.com/openai/triton/pull/1797#issuecomment-1730...
It's amazing how heavily provided hn is. I have a response here that's been deleted that is like 15 words, including a link to source that corroborates my claim but that response contains a transcribed emoji and so it's been deleted by dang or whomever. Lol super rich environment for discourse we've got going here.
The second part of this sentence is true because the first part is false.