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I undersand why unrolling loops is faster with current hardware, but does it ought to be so ? Maybe we are putting a lot of complexity in software to cope with
by reacweb 11y ago
I undersand why unrolling loops is faster with current hardware, but does it ought to be so ? Maybe we are putting a lot of complexity in software to cope with limitations of hardware that could not exist anymore in a couple of generations (of hardware).
- pjc50 11y agoHardware innovation in this area is, if anything, slowing down. Fundamentally we have to acknowledge that a computer is itself a distributed system and that every action that crosses a bus or disrupts a pipeline incurs a latency penalty.