Post #2563315
2023-01-16 04:45 UTC
The packages they use, however, are complex fucking monsters. They're a mix of C, C++, FORTAN, Haskell, Julia, and god knows what else. They don't want to waste time installing build tools and compiling these things. Their packages need to be precompiled and ready to go.
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@stargirl@hachyderm.io 2023-01-16 04:45
Precompilation is *hard*, especially for high-performance libraries. You can't just distribute a build will all the fancy vector extensions enabled cause someone on a different processor won't be able to use it. You wanna see a nightmare? Look at TensorFlow.