[Numpy-discussion] Fwd: GPU Numpy

[Sturla Molden]

Sturla Molden wrote:
> Memory management is slow compared to computation. Operations like 
> malloc, free and memcpy is not faster for VRAM than for RAM. 

Actually it's not VRAM anymore, but whatever you call the memory 
dedicated to the GPU.

It is cheap to put 8 GB of RAM into a computer, but graphics cards with 
more than 1 GB memory are expensive and uncommon on e.g. laptops. And 
this memory will be needed for other things as well, e.g. graphics.

Sturla