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Part of the reason is that ensuring things work for a different CPU architecture is simply a non-trivial task. There are libraries with hand-written x86 assembl
by k_sze 6y ago
Part of the reason is that ensuring things work for a different CPU architecture is simply a non-trivial task. There are libraries with hand-written x86 assembly, and others in C/C++ that depend on x86 intrinsics to perform acceptably, and then there are those that work accidentally on x86 because of how compilers implement some undefined behaviour for x86.
- rbanffy 6y agoCloudflare did a very interesting post that made the rounds here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/neon-is-the-new-black/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/neon-is-the-new-black/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16831609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16831609