We see technology companies making interesting additions to their files from time to time, both for testing and for a little surprise. The last name that recently came up with this surprise. NVIDIA it happened. A Reddit user shared that NVIDIA’s in the CUDA file He got a surprise that he didn’t understand.

When the user using NVIDIA’s free developer kit CUDA Toolkit opens the folder where CUDA is located, ‘warandpeace.txtHe found a file named ‘. to Turkish War and peace This text document, named after the novel translated as the whole novel contained. The document consisted of 65,340 lines in total.

Why did NVIDIA add War and Peace to the source folder?

The Reddit user who shared it thought the document in question was added to the source folder as an easter egg. But the truth was later shared by another Reddit user. In response to the share, the user explained the source code in which the file is used and that this source code is actually used for some kind of test stated.

According to the user’s description, the source code in which the file in question is used, Counting letters ‘w,x,y and z’ it creates a kernel and sends the text file to the video card memory and executes the kernel in the text file. So in this process All letters w, x, y and z in the novel War and Peace are counted. If the novel War and Peace was chosen for the test in question, it explains that it is unlikely to infringe copyright, is large enough to tell the difference between the methods used, and at the same time contains a low number of data entries to ensure that this process is completed in a short time.