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In retrospect, it’s almost surprising that there was never a push for hardware acceleration of common JavaScript operations.
by mortenjorck 8y ago
In retrospect, it’s almost surprising that there was never a push for hardware acceleration of common JavaScript operations.
- wruza 8y agoWhy? It is not special in any way. It is area in which you can be special only in special olympics sense. The new instruction doesn’t make anything new, it is just different and serves no purpose for 99.9% of users.
- djrogers 8y ago100% of users of mobile devices use JavaScript. 98% of them use it heavily in their web browsers. To ignore it, or try to pass it off as insignificant, is folly.
- wruza 8y agoOh, words go playing. Who uses that modulo 2^32 thing heavily in their browsers? Folly is wasting world’s resources on ineffective crappy implementation of unused features. Obviously it seems reasonable to fix hw. If I were Apple, I wouldn’t even think to reason with js socium.
- millstone 8y agoALU ops are cheap, interconnects are expensive. Curse JS for scatter-gather, not for its FCVTZS details. (Though now I can't explain the magnitude of the win...fine, curse JS for both.)