WIP: A Prototype for Enhancing the Performance of Data loader #708
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Original Issue: #630
Summary
This pull request improves the performance of flashlight by offering a new data structure: Sample. Sample transfers the data that it contains to the GPU memory in an asynchronous fashion. The transformations are performed after the prefetch step to ensure a single CPU thread deals with GPU interactions, hence, reducing the context switching and lock acquisition overhead.
This is a WIP. Please see #631 (comment)
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