Re:ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark
by dirtypersian on Sunday December 13, 2020 @03:12PM
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Who says they don't already support SVE; is it publicly known they support it or not? Especially if the binary doesn't have to be recompiled you'd never know whether they implemented it or not right?
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Re:ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark
by bwasti on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:02PM
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You can just try the instructions with an off-the-shelf assembler. They're not supported.
Re:ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark
by saagarjha on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:47PM
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Unless you have to toggle an MSR, of course…
Re:ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark
by andy_ppp on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:22PM
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I’m kind of interested about what happens if you throw random opcodes at processors now!
Re:ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark
by aw1621107 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:54PM
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You might be interested in sandsifter [0], which does precisely that!
Re:ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark
by dirtypersian on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:45PM
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I would guess the processor would just cause an exception/interrupt and it would just call an OS level exception/interrupt handler which would probably tell the user what the exception/interrupt was that occured; in this case an unsupported instruction.