Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Halide (programming language)" in English language version.
Ragan-Kelley notes that programmers can opt for "very painstaking, very unproductive, and very unsafe low-level code," which could introduce bugs, or "more safe, more productive, higher-level programming interfaces," that lack the ability to make fine adjustments in a compiler about how the program is run, and usually deliver lower performance. So, his team is trying to find a middle ground. "We're trying to figure out how to provide control for the key issues that human performance engineers want to be able to control," says Ragan-Kelley, "so, we're trying to build a new class of languages that we call user-schedulable languages that give safer and higher-level handles to control what the compiler does or control how the program is optimized."
