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IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler
sheepweevil writes "IBM just released Milepost GCC, 'the world's first open source machine learning compiler.' The compiler analyses the software and determines which code optimizations will be most effective during compilation using machine learning techniques. Experiments carried out with the compiler achieved an average 18% performance improvement. The compiler is expected to significantly reduce time-to-market of new software, because lengthy manual optimization can now be carried out by the compiler. A new code tuning website has been launched to coincide with the compiler release. The website features collaborative performance tuning and sharing of interesting optimization cases."
It will surely, er, program our programs to kill us.
No, it'll just optimize out all emergency stop and safety routines. Humans inevitably die anyway so there is no point in slowing down the code to prevent it.
Humans inevitably die anyway so there is no point in slowing down the code to prevent it.
In fact, think of how much of an optimization that is! I mean, suppose people were killed by our robot overloads at 25. That's 1/3 of 75 years old; that's a 3x improvement in the speed we go through our life! In a world where a 20% improvement in speed for a new optimization is very impressive, 3x is just great!
Oh, so new software takes too long to build because of lengthy manual optimization?
It depends on your definition of optimization.
In my current project we have about twenty guys "performing lengthy manual optimizations". It sounds quite better than having twenty guys "correcting the absolute crap that wouldn't even compile".