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A 1.1.3 CPU and GPU (HL only)

The CPU and the GPU are answers to two different problems. The CPU is built to run anything: varied tasks, complex logic, decisions, one or a few things at a time at very low latency. The GPU is built to do one kind of work at massive scale: the same operation applied to thousands of data items at once. Every difference between them follows from that split, which is what makes this an Explain statement rather than a...

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