[HN Gopher] Optimizing GPU Programs from Java Using Babylon and Hat
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Optimizing GPU Programs from Java Using Babylon and Hat
Author : pjmlp
Score : 17 points
Date : 2026-01-20 09:41 UTC (5 days ago)
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| ece wrote:
| Maybe this and TornadoVM will lead to a native torch on the JVM.
| One can hope.
| zmmmmm wrote:
| There seem to have been a lot of attempts to support GPU
| programming from Java and they always so far struggled to get
| adoption. HAT and TornadoVM look great, and it would be exciting
| if they took off. It's very impressive that TornadoVM in
| particular apparently has implemented pure java versions of a
| wide range of quite current models for inference and claims near-
| to-native performance on them. It's hard though to pull the
| trigger on investing time in these until we see actual adoption
| and usage start to take off in a major project somewhere.
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