Compiling Python to Run Anywhere

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blakepelton

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The article discusses compiling Python code to make it run anywhere, and the single comment raises questions about the practicality and potential use cases of this approach.

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zahlman

4 months ago

> The above is just a small selection, as the possibilities for implementing a bilinear resize operation on Apple Silicon are numerous (e.g. using the GPU, Neural Engine). The key here is that we can generate as many of these as possible (thanks to LLM-powered codegen), then emit compiled programs that use each one—with absolutely no limits.

This sounds... definitely not up to the standard of rigor one might reasonably expect for the task.

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