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Why aren’t hardware designers designing hardware for the languages and methods we have?
by CameraSupra 5y ago
Why aren’t hardware designers designing hardware for the languages and methods we have?
- sesuximo 5y agoThere are physical limits. E.g. clock speed can’t go so high that information must travel across the cpu faster than the speed of light. E.g.2. As caches get bigger, it takes more time to index them.
- astrange 5y agoThey are (through prediction, reordering, etc in the CPU), but manual approaches like hinting or VLIW have always turned out to fail, and the automatic approaches we're using now turn out to have security issues like Spectre.