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a_wild_dandan 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name h...

Thank you for explaining. I was so confused at how AMD was improving Quake performance with duck-like monikers.

stavros 10 months ago [–]

Well, if it _looks_ like a high-performance texture renderer, and it _walks_ like a high-performance texture renderer...

_joel 10 months ago | | [–]

It's probably been duck typed

tbalsam 10 months ago | | | [–]

shocked quack

taneq 10 months ago | | [–]

If it looks like a benchmark and it quacks like a benchmark… duck?

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