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Re:What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect p... by Aoyagi on Monday August 24, 2015 @05:39AM (#10108730)
This is a question from someone rather ignorant, so please don't hit me: Why didn't the Bulldozer affect the programmers? It (or Piledriver) seems to be doing quite well in applications with good threading.
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Re:What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect p... by Symmetry on Monday August 24, 2015 @11:23AM (#10110441)
In general all x86 chips are carefully designed to fulfill the abstraction that is the x86 ISA so to the programmer it shouldn't matter whether their code runs on an Atom or a Bulldozer or an i7.
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