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Re:C++ in Coders at Work by jacquesm on Friday October 16, 2009 @08:56PM (#886458)
> The computer is actually has a von Neumann architecture, that is, they have code and data in the same address space.

The ones that do not are actually pretty rare.

Most of those use the 'harvard architecture' and are DSP style machines.

And then there are vector processors and SIMDs, but even those can be seen as many von Neumann machines running in lock-step.

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Re:C++ in Coders at Work by barrkel on Friday October 16, 2009 @11:40PM (#886595)
The (vast) majority of programmers are not programming DSP-style machines, so like I said, and I still stand by it, C doesn't map well to the full functionality of the von Neumann architecture.
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