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Re:Examining ARM vs. x86 Memory Models with Rust by Retr0spectrum on Saturday June 27, 2020 @08:37AM (#23661444)
The cost in terms of transistors may be small, but what about performance? (This is not a rhetorical question, I'm curious to know)
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Re:Examining ARM vs. x86 Memory Models with Rust by ajross on Saturday June 27, 2020 @09:27AM (#23661730)
The fastest general purpose CPUs in the world implement a strongly ordered architecture, so clearly it can be done.
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Re:Examining ARM vs. x86 Memory Models with Rust by throwaway_pdp09 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:27PM (#23662755)
My question was exactly @Retr0spectrum's, the cost in performance, but I don't accept your answer (yet). I presume you mean intel and intel has a large transistor budget to burn, and quite like did to get that fastest perf. If you don't have to enforce strong ordering, how much extra a) actual speed b) transistor budget could you free up?

(not a hardware guy

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