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by killin_dan 3302 days ago
Do you know very much about GPUs? Would but be viable to implement a kanren on top of cuda or something like that? Wouldn't that lend kanren insane performance gains?
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not too surprisingly, a lot of logic programs don't parallelize very well at all because of very linear dependencies (control flow).

and some do a lot of largely independent but very regular work that would execute quite well on a simd/vector/smt array.

people have come up with some tricks to map control flow into simd (like some really cool parser tricks), but i think in general those have regimes where they have sub-serial performance.

so maybe? if you had the magic compiler? or you provided some manual annotation support? or a robust ffi?

for sql, which has a much more limited footprint, there's been some cool vectorization work.