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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by rbanffy on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:23AM (#18654103)
With all the optimizations going on, high performance RISC designs don't look like RISC designs anymore either. The ISA has very little to do with whatever the execution units actually see or execute.
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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by rocqua on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:56AM (#18654231)
It is baffling to me that byte-code is essentially a 'high level language' these days.
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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by rbanffy on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:14AM (#18654557)
And yet, when I first approached C, it was considered a "high level" language.
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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by bogomipz on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:52AM (#18655627)
Because the functional units are utilizing microcode? Or do you mean something else?
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