Asher Mancinelli's Ideal Array Language
Asher Mancinelli, a compiler engineer at NVIDIA, was featured on episode 111 of the ArrayCast podcast discussing array programming languages and their evolution. The episode included updates on APL-related resources and the release of KDB-X, a new time series database platform. The discussion highlighted connections between modern compiler frameworks and historical languages like APL.
- ▪Asher Mancinelli is a compiler engineer on NVIDIA's HPC compiler team with prior experience at Pacific Northwest National Lab.
- ▪The APL Quest website has been redesigned to centralize problem solutions, video walkthroughs, and chat transcripts from Dyalog's problem-solving competition.
- ▪KX has released KDB-X, offering 16GB of RAM and support for personal and commercial use, including on-premises and cloud deployment.
- ▪Chris Lattner's work on MLIR was noted as having conceptual similarities to the APL programming language.
- ▪The podcast hosts expressed interest in inviting representatives from KX to discuss KDB-X in a future episode.
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Transcript (click to expand) Transcript Transcript prepared by Bob Therriault Show Notes Asher Mancinelli 00:00-00:16 interesting interview with Chris Lattner, who of course started the LLVM project, about how MLIR really is just a rehashing of APL and that APL just got so many things right way back then. And they sort of need to be brought forth into these other languages to take better advantage of the hardware. I think that’s a pretty interesting point. Music 00:17-00:27 Conor Hoekstra 00:27-00:40 Welcome to episode 111 of ArrayCast. I’m your host, Conor. And today with us, we have a special guest who we will get to introducing in a few minutes. But first, we’re going to go around and do brief introductions. We’ll start with Bob, then go to Adám and finish with Marshall.
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