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Re:Brad Cox has died by bitexploder on Saturday January 23, 2021 @05:46AM (#25881323)
The M1 chip has specialized paths on it just to make the message sending even faster. That’s part of the M1 magic.
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Re:Brad Cox has died by saagarjha on Saturday January 23, 2021 @06:59AM (#25881626)
To be fair I think the extent of this specialization is a branch hint
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Re:Brad Cox has died by bitexploder on Saturday January 23, 2021 @07:45PM (#25887643)
It’s still a kind of neat trick. One of those paths where even a little optimization goes a long way due to it being so hot.
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