What David Crawshaw thinks about compilers

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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8 Jun 2025

Our readingGraphics chips have far more room for future performance gains than CPUs, which are nearing physical limits.

semiconductors

Their wordsGPUs are not nearly as restricted in their future progress as CPUs which are far more constrained in how they can physically improve (compiler-driven ILP only goes so far).

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