Apple-Silicon
Evaluating h3.c: Cutting the Abstraction Tax
antirez's h3.c runs a full MiniMax-H3 video model on Apple Silicon in ~35,000 lines of C, Objective-C, and Metal -- no Python, no PyTorch, no CUDA-style runtime. I compare it to the pain of getting PyTorch running on AMD CPU + AMD GPU + ROCm on Linux in mid-2023, and argue both stories are really about one thing: removing abstraction layers you don't actually need.
Tags:
Metal, Apple-Silicon, Rocm, Pytorch, Golang, Open-Source, Ai
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