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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by snaky on Thursday August 23, 2018 @06:26AM (#17826044)
There are some interesting ideas about programmability, like automagically offloading some computation parts to FPGA.

http://conal.net/blog/posts/haskell-to-hardware-via-cccs http://conal.net/blog/posts/circuits-as-a-bicartesian-closed... https://github.com/conal/lambda-ccc/blob/master/doc/notes.md

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by Filligree on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:34PM (#17828615)
The software needed to drive them needs to become much better (documented, ergonomics, everything) before that will be a realistic option.
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