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 A bridge over the semantic gap between code emitted by pystencils and your C/C++/Cuda/HIP framework.
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 A bridge over the semantic gap between code emitted by [pystencils](https://pypi.org/project/pystencils/)
 and your C/C++/Cuda/HIP framework.