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I'm currently chipping away at DSC, a tensor library I wrote from scratch to play with large language models. Last week I re-wrote flash attention from scratch in CUDA and was able…

I'm currently working on DSC, a tensor library I wrote from scratch in C++ with a PyTorch-like API. Right now it works on both CPU and GPU (both AMD and NVIDIA) and is capable of r…

Because I happen to know C++ and I just wanted to build something rather than learn a new language. Zig looks very interesting though, there are already other projects in this spac…

You just need a foundation of C/C++. If you already have that then just start programming, it's way better than reading books/guides/blogs (at least until you're stuck!). Also, you…

Yes! This was actually one of my initial goals! I actually like to work in a C-style-C++ let's say where I turn off C++ features I don't need and just use the one I actually need l…

Thanks for pointing this out! I'll definitely have to investigate other approaches. nanobind looks interesting but I don't need to expose complex C++ objects, I just need the 'fast…

I developed this on an HP Omen 15 with an i7-8750H, a GTX 1050TI and 32GB or RAM with Linux Mint as my OS.

Right now I can load tensors directly from a safetensors file or from a NumPy array so I don't really have in mind to add my own custom format but I do plan to support GGUF files.

You are absolutely correct! I started working on a sort of compiler a while back but decided to get the basics down first. The templates and switch(s) are not really the issue but …

Thanks! To be honest, it started purely as a learning project. I was really inspired when llama.cpp first came out and tried to build something similar in pure C++ ( https://github…

Yes, when I designed the API I wanted to keep a clear distinction between Python and C. At some point I had two APIs: 1 in Python and the other in high-level C++ and they both shar…

Hi HN, Over the past few months, I've been building `dsc`, a tensor library from scratch in C++/CUDA. My main focus has been on getting the basics right, prioritizing a clean API, …