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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Regarding AI, some simple examples of likely computing expense:

performing 1 + 1 in assembly language: 1 CPU cycle
performing 1 + 1 in a high level interpreted language: maybe 10 CPU cycles
performing 1 + 1 using an LLM: millions of CPU cycles
asking "why was the rabbit an animal after 1 + 1": probably priceless, maybe a billion cycles

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Nowadays with JIT #1 and #2 are very close. There was less than a x2 performance gap when I compared a direct simple task in C and javascript.

About #3 no one does that.

#3 and #4 will be on the same scale, every token generated is roughly the same amount of CPU.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

To be honest we lost that war when JavaScript dominated everything.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

PHP would like a word.

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