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Could GPU accelerate gcc/g++ compilation

When I'm building my gentoo system, my nvidia gpu is usually unused, can I make some use of it?

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No, you cannot.

GPUs are typically best at accelerating massively parallel math-heavy tasks that involve little branching. Compiling software is basically the exact opposite of this - it's branch-heavy and does not parallelize well beyond the file level.

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