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xbeuxhedovksb··on A dive into the AMD driver workflow
Having a Nvidia Linux gaming setup, from my experience it doesn't work well at all : broken wayland, no hw video enc, etc.

Sure some of those could be solved by sending weeks trying hacks things like VA-API over NVDEC emulation, but at the end of the day this is waste of time, tl:dr everything works on Nvidia Windows, many things broken on Nvidia Linux.

NVidia on Linux is only good for non desktop use : cuda/compute/ml over ssh.

AMD is the exact opposite, desktop things work better except there is no cuda/compute/ml

So if you want something that works over the whole spectrum : desktop, wayland, compute/ml, video enc/dec, screen sharing, etc. it doesn't exist on Linux

xbeuxhedovksb··on LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler
This looks very cool ! There is also MyPyC which is not in the comparison table, but worth noting.

They have some benchmarks vs regular python here :

https://github.com/mypyc/mypyc-benchmark-results/blob/master...

One difference is that MyPyC compiles your code to a C extension, so your are still dependent on python. On the other hand you can call regular python libraries with the normal syntax while, in LPython, the "break-out" syntax to regular libraries isn't straightforward

In any case super exiting to see work going into AOT python