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Comment by aDyslecticCrow

The article does make an example quite early;

> GPUs achieve very high performance without any of this logic, at the expense of requiring explicitly parallel programs.

GPU cores are in some ways closer to "PDP-11", they're either acting as thousands of parallel simple processors, or expose pretty raw instructions for very parallel use-cases.

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