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Personally I can find something to like in most architectures. Cell (for example) was an asymmetric/hybrid multicore CPU; Apple Silicon is perhaps a modern exa
by musicale 4y ago
Personally I can find something to like in most architectures.
Cell (for example) was an asymmetric/hybrid multicore CPU; Apple Silicon is perhaps a modern example of asymmetric performance vs. efficiency cores, and also features special-purpose accelerator cores such as the neural engine.
The 432 had capability-based addressing. Speed-over-security has had a good run, but with some disastrous consequences. We may be seeing the return of capabilities with CHERI/ARM.
The 960 was an early superscalar design, supported tag bits, and was also a successful product.
- chasil 4y agoObligatory mention: "RISC instruction sets I have known and disliked." https://www.jwhitham.org//2016/02/risc-instruction-sets-i-have-known-and.html https://www.jwhitham.org//2016/02/risc-instruction-sets-i-ha... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607119 I might also say that Sun's UltraSPARC was constantly beaten by Fujitsu SuperSPARC. It would have been better to outsource.
- pinewurst 4y agoSuperSPARC was an earlier TI manufactured part. Fujitsu was (and I think still is) SPARC64, which was a nice series of parts, originally designed by HAL. I used to own a Fujitsu server - fast and built like a brick outhouse.