Every so often people come up to us and ask: "Aren't you guys concerned that compilers will put you of business?" or "Can't a compiler do the same thing that you guys are doing?". Fortunately for us and a lot of the people in high-performance computing the answer is simply "NO".  While compilers have made massive progress in the last two decades, they are nowhere near the point of putting us and many other HPC programmers out of business. Compilers are still a one-size-fits-all solution that need to deal with any and all input, whereas HPC specialists can be thought of as designer-fitted solution.

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