SimSIMD vs SciPy
Languages and libraries
simd numeric library
SHOW HN2023
13points
6comments
#2,112of 3,109 in 2023
Top 68%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 0 against
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Interesting performance gains from SIMD on modern CPUs
From 2 comments
I encourage one to merge into e.g. {NumPy, SciPy, }; are there PRs? Though SymPy.physics only yet supports X,Y,Z vectors and doesn't mention e.g. "jaccard"?, FWIW:…
westurner on HNNp. Thanks for the optimizations. From "PostgresML is 8-40x faster than Python HTTP microservices" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33270638 : > Apache Ballista and…
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Requests
Merge the optimizations into NumPy or SciPy via PRs
From 1 comment
I encourage one to merge into e.g. {NumPy, SciPy, }; are there PRs? Though SymPy.physics only yet supports X,Y,Z vectors and doesn't mention e.g. "jaccard"?, FWIW:…
westurner on HN
Apply the optimizations to other projects such as CuPy, xtensor-fftw or llama.cpp
From 1 comment
I encourage one to merge into e.g. {NumPy, SciPy, }; are there PRs? Though SymPy.physics only yet supports X,Y,Z vectors and doesn't mention e.g. "jaccard"?, FWIW:…
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Questions
Whether CuPy GPUs could benefit given they lack AVX-512 or SVE
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I encourage one to merge into e.g. {NumPy, SciPy, }; are there PRs? Though SymPy.physics only yet supports X,Y,Z vectors and doesn't mention e.g. "jaccard"?, FWIW:…
westurner on HN
Alternatives named
NumPy and SciPy
From 2 comments
Over the years, the merits of Intel’s 512-bit Advanced Vector eXtensions (AVX-512) have been extensively debated. Introduced in 2014, CPUs took time to offer robust support. In…
ashvardanian on HNI encourage one to merge into e.g. {NumPy, SciPy, }; are there PRs? Though SymPy.physics only yet supports X,Y,Z vectors and doesn't mention e.g. "jaccard"?, FWIW:…
westurner on HN
pgvector
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Np. Thanks for the optimizations. From "PostgresML is 8-40x faster than Python HTTP microservices" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33270638 : > Apache Ballista and…
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