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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by saagarjha on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:42PM (#24748916)
Internal compiler datastructures and the need to keep more things in memory?
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by jchw on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:46PM (#24748957)
This particular thought thread is about more translation units, not larger translation units. I can't see why those would not mostly scale linearly.
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by tylerhou on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:53PM (#24749007)
Tail latency. See my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24749000).
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