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Imho the article misses a key point which is data locality. If you look at specialized processors for say, convolutions, the majority of the benefits are comin
by deepnotderp 8y ago
Imho the article misses a key point which is data locality.
If you look at specialized processors for say, convolutions, the majority of the benefits are coming from data locality being exploited.
(And no I've never heard the term "dispatch" be used for data movement)
- p1mrx 8y agoThe "extract bits 3 to 7 and multiply by 13" example is about data locality, to some extent. It's cheaper to keep data in a local circuit, than to ship it around between general-purpose registers.