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by FiveDegrees 3138 days ago
Have you benchmarked Tile against Stalin∇?

https://github.com/Functional-AutoDiff/STALINGRAD

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http://barak.pearlmutter.net/papers/ad2016b.pdf

2 comments

Who in his right mind would name a library after Stalin?!
It’s a word play on “Stalingrad”.

It’s kind of funny.

If I would name a library after a man who directly ordered to kill your grandparents and grandparents of your colleagues by shooting them in back of their head would you find it funny?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

The man who sent an army to kill and rape people in your country?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland

The man who planned to crash a nation by starving it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

You know, people from your history lessons actually lived like you and I do and some of them still do, as do their families.

You’ve run away with this a bit too far.

Firstly, I am staunchly anti-Stalinist, anti-communist, and anti-socialist. I’ve been to former Soviet states and seen the devastation that Stalin and his ilk wrought.

Secondly, the library is a wordplay on the name of the city (or perhaps the well-known battle) of Stalingrad. That’s already a step removed from being named after Stalin.

Thirdly, stop trying to turn the world into a humourless wasteland. The policing of jokes of questionable taste screams of moral panic.

You are of course entirely right. It may be worthwhile to email Siskind or Pearlmutter on the subject. I believe Siskind has a tradition of naming things after brutal dictators, so I imagine it's liable to not amount to much.

Might as well name your VR SDK Holodomor.

almost as funny as naming a catacomb 'Hit Lair'
That looks both clever and interesting, do you know if they have published any benchmarks on GPU or other accelerator targets?
Not that I've been able to find.