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Deplodock compiles LLMs to raw CUDA
Deplodock is a pure-Python reference compiler that lowers PyTorch graphs through six IRs and emits raw CUDA kernels. The accompanying article walks through the stack stage by stage and shows how it fuses transformer ops without relying on PyTorch’s heavier compiler layers.
// ANALYSIS
The point here is not to beat Triton everywhere; it is to make compiler structure legible enough that you can hack on it without spelunking through TVM-sized codebases.
- –Six IRs give a clean mental model from FX capture to CUDA emission, which is more useful for learning and experimentation than a monolithic lowering pass.
- –The fusion and staging story is the real value: for LLM inference, avoiding intermediate HBM traffic usually matters more than clever algebra.
- –Raw CUDA output makes every scheduling choice inspectable, but it also means portability and peak-kernel performance will lag production-grade stacks.
- –The RMSNorm, softmax, and matmul examples make clear this is a compiler tutorial first and a benchmark race second.
- –For AI developers, the project is interesting as a readable reference architecture, not as a drop-in replacement for torch.compile.
// TAGS
deplodockllmgpuinferencedevtoolopen-source
DISCOVERED
6h ago
2026-05-01
PUBLISHED
10h ago
2026-04-30
RELEVANCE
8/ 10
AUTHOR
NoVibeCoding