blu42

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by blu42 7y ago
Intel's SIMD autovectorizer against NV's SIMT was like bringing a sword to a machine-gun war. The fact Intel's own ispc beat that too should have shown them there was an entirely different class of weaponry they should'v
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by blu42 7y ago
That's my understanding as well. Software-wise, I, for one, have not had issues with reading or writing code with branch delay slots -- automatic nops, at worst. I guess it all depends how early in one's development they were intr
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by blu42 7y ago
FWIW, all my laptops are currently arm-based (chromebooks), for the simple reason of price + battery performance.
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by blu42 7y ago
Unfortunately trade wars are as real as any other kind of war, where 'no holds barred' is the norm. I'm still amazed how many people fell for the 'concerns of espionage' pretext. I guess most wars in history have st
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by blu42 7y ago
Do you mean at 14nm? I guess once they successfully migrate their actual production line to 10/7nm, whenever that might be..
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by blu42 7y ago
Re AVX-512 and throttling, may I suggest this post instead https://lemire.me/blog/2018/09/07/avx-512-when-and-how-to-us... , again by Daniel.
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by blu42 7y ago
It's about time societies started processing their own trash. If the economics of processing some kinds trash does not turn out great then maybe we should stop/minimize generating such trash?
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by blu42 7y ago
The datacentre (AKA 'Neoverse') CA76 variant.
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by blu42 7y ago
One guess re the second CA76 datapoint would be N1.
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by blu42 7y ago
Propeller-based airplanes are not that much faster than this train -- current propeller world record stands at 855 km/h. For higher speeds jet/turbofan engines would be the choice, as they are among the few propulsion forms that c
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by blu42 7y ago
It's ok, the oval office might eventually back them on the international markets..
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by blu42 7y ago
Come to think of it, I believe I might have found a couple of "back doors" in Win 10. Shall I call my EU parliament representative now about trade sanctions against MS, or shall I wait till Monday? Decisions, decisions..
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by blu42 7y ago
Buffer management is in kernel space, but that's about all that happens in kernel space GPU-wise. Indeed, most interesting things happen in user space.
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by blu42 7y ago
I have a RK3399-based (same chip as in the PBP) chromebook -- ASUS Chromebook Flip CA101P -- as one of my daily rides. It has no issue playing 1080@60fps & 4K@30 youtubes (I cannot physically output more than 4K@30 to my TV). Its Chrome
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by blu42 7y ago
Doh, my reading balked at the embedded add. Yes, p being a prime actually inverts the statement successfully. My bad.
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by blu42 7y ago
"Whenever a product m×n is divisible by p, then m or n must be divisible by p." Actually it's the other way around: 'Whenever m or n are divisible by p, then their product m×n must be divisible by p.' The opposite i
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by blu42 7y ago
If Intel are stockpiling 10nm parts now (Q2) so they'd have something on the shelves for Q4 then I don't see how their 10nm facilities are in a good shape. Furthermore, when everybody in the industry uses the 'x% yield'
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by blu42 7y ago
Nope, I'm seeing clasp for the first time -- Christian Schafmeister's talk was extremely nice to listen to! I did come across some small LISP implementations at the early stages, but by that time I already had the AST builder done
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by blu42 7y ago
Ha! If I only knew about 'Build Your Own Lisp' three months ago! I needed a simple language as a vehicle for a compiler talk I'm preparing for this summer, so I hacked along an extremely reduced LISP (a 'Non-LISP',
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by blu42 7y ago
Salut! I've finally decided to register for writing, after years of mute reading ; )
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by blu42 7y ago
Props to the author for the objective article. Re CA53 throughput and latencies, no -- I don't have the tables, but I've done my fair share of tbl/tbx mesurements: https://www.cnx-software.com/2017/08&#x2