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A comment on AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast. Parent comment

Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by stingraycharles on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:04PM (#50449627)
It has always been like this, and it’s amazing how branch prediction and speculative execution work. CPUs are so much more complex than the simple mental model you first learn.
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Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by magicalhippo on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:01AM (#50450843)
> It has always been like this

Nah. I recall putting multiplication tables in RAM because it was faster to read the tables than doing the multiplication.

RAM used to be relatively fast. These days it's dog slow unless you're streaming.

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