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enriquto on Oct 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The State of Machine Learning Frameworks

well, for one pytorch added the python overhead over an otherwise very clean lua jit

mruts on Oct 10, 2019 [–]

PyTorch wraps THNN, not Torch. Moreover, even if this was true, it wouldn't matter at all. Practically 0% of the overhead is related to Python in the first place, all of the time is dominated by the underlying C implementation.

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