[krastanov]

As an aside, it is really interesting to see a computational package that, while supporting multiple GPU vendors, was first vetted on AMD, not NVidia. It is encouraging to see ROCM finally shaking off its reputation for poor support.

[mr_octopus]

The vendor-agnostic GPU approach via KernelAbstractions is great to see. The Vulkan compute path is underrated for this — it runs on AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel without needing ROCm or CUDA, just whatever driver ships with the GPU.

Re: the compilation latency discussion — it's a real tension. JIT gives you expressiveness but kills startup. AOT gives you instant start but limits flexibility. Interesting that most GPU languages went JIT when the GPU itself runs pre-compiled SPIR-V/PTX anyway.

[simondanisch]

well, I do hate vendor lock in with a passion ;) But yeah, a lot did happen, this likely wouldn't have been possible one or two years ago!