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The cost in terms of transistors may be small, but what about performance? (This is not a rhetorical question, I'm curious to know)
by Retr0spectrum 6y ago
The cost in terms of transistors may be small, but what about performance? (This is not a rhetorical question, I'm curious to know)
- ajross 6y agoThe fastest general purpose CPUs in the world implement a strongly ordered architecture, so clearly it can be done.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoMy question was exactly @Retr0spectrum's, the cost in performance, but I don't accept your answer (yet). I presume you mean intel and intel has a large transistor budget to burn, and quite like did to get that fastest perf. If you don't have to enforce strong ordering, how much extra a) actual speed b) transistor budget could you free up? (not a hardware guy