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by MATTEHWHOU 123 days ago
This is one of those projects that sounds impossible until you realize CUDA is basically C++ with some extensions and a runtime library.

The hard part isn't the language translation — it's matching NVIDIA's highly optimized libraries (cuBLAS, cuDNN, etc.). If BarraCUDA can hit even 80% of the performance on common ML workloads, that's a game changer for anyone who bought AMD hardware.

Curious about the PTX translation layer specifically. That's where most previous attempts (like ZLUDA) hit a wall.