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nivertech 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions

With IEEE 754 you can always explicitly check for edge cases.

But with exceptions you can’t use SIMD / vectorization.

dmoy 10 months ago [–]

Yea that's totally fair, you'd need to build it in as a first class behavior of your code, doesn't necessarily mean that exceptions is the right way to do it.

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