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Re:Looking Ahead at Intel's Xe3 GPU Architecture by immibis on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @08:46PM (#43418839)
This is, like, the entirety of computing. Did x86 spring fully-formed from Zeus's forehead or did people bake in their knowledge of what programmers wanted their programs to do?

When you write programs do you not use heuristics? And tests?

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Re:Looking Ahead at Intel's Xe3 GPU Architecture by buildbot on Thursday March 20, 2025 @01:01AM (#43420016)
It’s a little known fact that x86 is literally Athena! Which I guess means Intel should be casting some lightning bolts towards AMD and others.
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