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		Siira on Nov 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The joy of concurrent logic programming This is simply not true if the overhead is much smaller than each one operation. But I agree that batching matters.

PaulHoule on Nov 7, 2021 [–]

For my current side project I am making collages out of images I took with my DSLR. I like to use expensive scaling algorithms because I’ll have to look at the result when I am done.

For this the natural ‘batch’ is one image and that justifies the overhead easily.

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