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Benchmark image pipelines against ffcv

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#236 opened on Jun 10, 2022

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[https://github.com/libffcv/ffcv] seems to be the state-of-the-art when it comes to fast image pipelines for training deep learning models on computer vision. Would be interesting to benchmark against this and see how we compare.

Results could motivate work on #235.

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Set up a benchmarking script comparing FastAI.jl's image pipeline with ffcv. Track throughput and preprocessing time. Motivate work on issue #235.
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