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New comment by developedby in "Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)"

developedby — Fri, 17 May 2024 17:13:10 +0000

That's the main idea!

New comment by developedby in "Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)"

developedby — Fri, 17 May 2024 16:43:52 +0000

Bending is an operation similar to folding, both in real life and in the language. While fold is recursive on data, bend is recursive on a boolean condition (like a pure while that supports multiple branching recursion points).

I was actually looking forward to seeing someone from Bend to make a comment like this

New comment by developedby in "Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)"

developedby — Fri, 17 May 2024 11:42:23 +0000

The first `fork` is from using bend and passing the initial state

  The program above will initialize a state (`x = 0`), and then, for as long as `x < 3`,
  it will "fork" that state in two, creating a `Tree/Node`, and continuing with `x + 1`.
  When `x >= 3`, it will halt and return a `Tree/Leaf` with `7`.
  When all is done, the result will be assigned to the `tree` variable: