[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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