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This seems pretty wasteful compared to the alternative of writing software that does not use power-of-two strides and deleting this part of the hardware!
by anonymoushn 4y ago
This seems pretty wasteful compared to the alternative of writing software that does not use power-of-two strides and deleting this part of the hardware!
- kccqzy 4y agoAs a cloud provider, you can't ask your customer to rewrite their software in order to run optimally on your cloud.
- anonymoushn 4y agoDo specialized devices at Google Cloud run all sorts of customer software? Do the customers typically target other CPUs that have this extra stuff in their cache?
- Sirened 4y agoRewriting software is often significantly more expensive (or, not even possible when dealing with third party code!) whereas with hardware you can fix it once for everyone and see a large speed up across the entire system.