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There's a talk somewhere (by Cliff again) on how the Azul chips differed from x86. Intel seems really slow to add features useful for high level GCd languages b
by sievebrain 10y ago
There's a talk somewhere (by Cliff again) on how the Azul chips differed from x86. Intel seems really slow to add features useful for high level GCd languages but apparently nowadays x86 has caught up which is why they don't bother making their own chips anymore.
- cliffc 10y agoNo change to the X86, instead user-mode TLB handler from RedHat allows ptr-swizzeling, that plus some careful planning and the read barrier fell to 2 X86 ops - with acceptable runtime costs. Cliff