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Re:Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rus... by ithkuil on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:34PM (#25825599)
Well, all what CPUs do is copying memory from one memory location to another, perform some arithmetic and do some conditional jumps :-)
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Re:Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rus... by xiphias2 on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:15PM (#25826077)
Most of the arithmetic is checking optional fields if they are empty or not before copying :)
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Re:Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rus... by cogman10 on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:49PM (#25825795)
pop pop jump jump oh what a crunch it is.

(sung to this tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iENQXIQ8wH0 )

Side note: It really is incredible what happened in the early days of computing when memory and computation were limited. How much care was taken in the precise layout of memory or even the timing of a calculation was insane.

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