Re: GPU Accelerated Sorting

Hello,

In my humble opinion, while  it can sound interesting from a theorical
point of view to outloads some  operations to the GPU, there is a huge
pratical problem in current world  : databases which are big enough to
require such heavy optimization are usually runned on server hardware,
which very rarely have powerful GPU.

There may  be a small  target of computers  having both GPU  and heavy
database, but that sounds very  exceptional to me, so investing effort
into it sounds a bit unjustified to me.

Except  as a  matter of  scientific research,  which is  it  of course
important for the future.

Regards,

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