Today I’m excited to announce the next steps we’re taking to radically improve TypeScript performance. [embedded content] The core value proposition of TypeScript is an excellent developer experience. As your codebase grows, so does the value of TypeScript itself, but … Read more
Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes. Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? I love programming in Ruby, and I advocate for people to write as much Ruby as possible. But sometimes you really really must … Read more
They might all connect to the same ports, but Thunderbolt 3, 4, 5, USB 3 and USB4 are disturbingly different, and few deliver the performance that their up-tos promise. From the figures that I see here at the moment, the … Read more
One of the things in my big Atari ST haul from a couple months ago was an issue of FaSTer disk magazine. I had thought that it was a sealed copy, but although it was still in its shrink-wrap, it … Read more
1KAIST 2Korea University 3Scaled Foundations 4New York University *Equal Advising. News event [Oct 2024] Our project page is released. Overview Generative models based on denoising, such as diffusion models and flow-based models, have been a scalable approach in generating high-dimensional … Read more
20 Sep 2024 3 min read Dina Genkina is the computing and hardware editor at IEEE Spectrum Flow Computing In an era of fast-evolving AI accelerators, general purpose CPUs don’t get a lot of love. “If you look at the … Read more
Many important practical computations, such as scheduling, combinatorial, and optimization problems, use techniques known as integer programming to find the best combination of many variables. In these problems, some or all of the variables are restricted to integer values, which … Read more
Docker has fundamentally changed how developers build and deploy applications, with most companies leveraging containers in some capacity. At Blacksmith, we regularly see our customer’s Docker builds taking 30 minutes or more, which can significantly hinder developer productivity and delay … Read more
TL;DR: Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU and WebAssembly leads to 20x speedup over multi-threaded and 550x speedup over single-threaded CPU performance. Thus achieving interactive speeds for state-of-the-art background removal directly in the browser. Removing background from an image is a … Read more
Modern processors have instructions to process several bytes at once. Effectively all processors have the capability of processing 16 bytes one once. These instructions are called SIMD, for single instruction, multiple data. It was once an open question whether these … Read more