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Re: Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library

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Post by hombre_fatal »

n8henrie wrote: post #2

Not related to the content, but as a port of "spice" -- being from New Mexico, we would usually refer to a spicy pepper as (eg green) "chile," or a chunky dish with beans and meat as (eg Texas) "chili." Looks like the AP Stylebook agrees, though Webster's makes it seem less clear, so you can probably get away with it either way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_pepper

Re: Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library

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Post by ralegh »

aidenn0 wrote: post #10
n8henrie wrote: post #2

Not related to the content, but as a port of "spice" -- being from New Mexico, we would usually refer to a spicy pepper as (eg green) "chile," or a chunky dish with beans and meat as (eg Texas) "chili." Looks like the AP Stylebook agrees, though Webster's makes it seem less clear, so you can probably get away with it either way.

Wikipedia says "Chili peppers, also spelled chile or chilli"

We call them chilli in the Uk

Re: Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library

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Post by nestorD »

bee_rider wrote: post #13

Out of curiosity, how do Spice/Chili/Rayon compare against the boring answer, OpenMP? I guess they must have some really neat capabilities.

Rayon is known to have a higher overhead for the simple, and arguably most common case in numerical codes, static block size scheduling. Things get better, and you start to benefit from rayon, as work gets less balanced.

Re: Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library

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Post by beepbooptheory »

n8henrie wrote: post #2

Not related to the content, but as a port of "spice" -- being from New Mexico, we would usually refer to a spicy pepper as (eg green) "chile," or a chunky dish with beans and meat as (eg Texas) "chili." Looks like the AP Stylebook agrees, though Webster's makes it seem less clear, so you can probably get away with it either way.

Was just arguing with a friend the other day about distinction between a "chili" and what New Mexican's have in "green chile stew." I have had what by at least strong family-resemblance is a chili but had essentially an adovada meat base, but would never call something chili that had potatoes or any visible vegetables. But in NM, even frito pies get the (superior) "green chile stew" topping.

Re: Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library

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Post by ithkuil »

anamexis wrote: post #5
andyferris wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Further abroad (Australia), Chile is a country and chili is the hot pepper, so I suspect the (English) language here is highly regional. Eg I’ve even lived in North American and never come across that spelling for the pepper.

The "chile" spelling is from Spanish, particularly Mexican and Central American Spanish. The word is derived from Nahuatl (Aztec). That said, I'm in northern US and I would spell the pepper "chili"

And the name of the country Chile has no relation to the nahuatl word for pepper but comes from a word in a south American language (likely Aymara)

Re: Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library

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Post by darby_nine »

anamexis wrote: post #5
andyferris wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Further abroad (Australia), Chile is a country and chili is the hot pepper, so I suspect the (English) language here is highly regional. Eg I’ve even lived in North American and never come across that spelling for the pepper.

The "chile" spelling is from Spanish, particularly Mexican and Central American Spanish. The word is derived from Nahuatl (Aztec). That said, I'm in northern US and I would spell the pepper "chili"

Oddly I associate `chile` with the pepper and `chili` with the stew. Curiously chili pepper seems to be the common spelling around where I live so I have no clue where I picked this up.
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