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Re:Fractal: An Execution Model for Fine-Grain Nested Specula... by suvinay on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @03:41AM (#14700549)
The 88x is the maximum speedup we get, yes. We believe our ideas are applicable to a wide range of domains ranging from databases, to discrete-event simulation, to machine learning, and graph analytics.
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Re:Fractal: An Execution Model for Fine-Grain Nested Specula... by microcolonel on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:46AM (#14702772)
Very cool work nonetheless, it's easy for the software folks to feel completely hopeless these days with transistors suddenly getting more expensive per capita instead of cheaper.
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