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wwwigham | 3 years ago

At first, I was really excited, because I really wanted this pipeline to work well. I've wanted an automatic FPGA workload offloader for awhile. Then I read that their "JIT" FPGA bitstream still took 2 _hours_ to build because it still used the built-in slow-as-molasses FPGA manufacturer bitstream assemblers. That's not a timescale that really supports a real, dynamic workload, unfortunately. Still, the work is neat and gluing together these parts in a way the works is really cool - what is essentially a Graal FPGA backend is pretty neat, if unlikely to be on its own paradigm shifting. Still, maybe the existence of something like this can prod Intel into making a fast mode for the bitstream assembler.

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