(author here) check_brackets_bt is actually exactly the algorithm that Raph mentions

raphlinus 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Right. This is the binary tree version of the algorithm, and is nice and concise, very readable. What would take it to the next level for me is the version in the stack monoid paper, which chunks things up into workgroups. I haven't done benchmarks against the Pareas version (unfortunately it's not that easy), but I would expect the workgroup optimized version to be quite a bit faster.

	▲	Munksgaard 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		To be clear, you can express workgroup parallelism in Futhark, or rather, if the compiler sees that you've programmed your problem in such a way that it can take advantage of workgroup parallelism, it will. But you're right, it would be interesting to see how the different approaches stack up to each other. The Pareas project linked above also includes an implementation using radix sort.
	▲	convolvatron 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I've been playing with one using scans. too bad that's not really on the map for architectural reasons, it opens up a lot of uses.

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Munksgaard 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Thanks for clarifying! It would indeed be interesting to see a comparison between similar implementations in other languages, both in terms of readability and performance. I feel like the readability can hardly get much better than what you wrote, but I don't know!