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I've heard of herding cats. Have you heard... bird is the word.

TGIF :D

Hey even animals need... training... that means. Oh bollocks.

Is it one weekend where they cram too much material into 20 hours of class time or spread out over a week?

Do they get practical certifications or just course credit?

If you created a runtime virtual machine these days, I wouldn't use stacks or registers... address virtual/virtualized memory directly and let the CPU &| compiler || LLVM sort out register placement... registers are basically another layer in the storage hierarchy, from registers/L0 file all the way down to tape, or eww, hard copy.

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Pipeline depth, cache sizes and types, number of execution units, memory links and bandwidth and on and on.

Absent are measurements for enterprise CPUs like the Xeon Platinum 8180M (street price about $13,000 USD) which trounces the fastest offering from AMD before even getting out of bed. [0]

Note 0: For multi-threaded uses. For single-threaded use-cases, the Xeon Gold 6144 has the potential to be faster:

- Gold 6144 vs. Platinum 8180M

- Cores: 8 vs. 28

- Turbo: 4.2 GHz vs. 3.8 GHz

- L2: 8x1 MiB vs. 28x1 MiB

- L3: 24.75 MiB vs. 38.5 MiB

It's really a shame that AMD isn't as comprehensively competitive as it could be in enterprise, because Intel could get somewhat lazier/pricier in some areas without effective competition.