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The end of an era. The SPARC ISA was a work of art.
by torstenvl 3y ago
The end of an era. The SPARC ISA was a work of art.
- gpderetta 3y agoregister windows in particular stood the test of time!
- snvzz 3y agoMore like, they were bad at introduction, and remained bad to date. They rank high alongside delay slots, in harmful features.
- gpderetta 3y agoSorry, I forgot the /s
- torstenvl 3y agoCurious why you think both were bad designs in a time when memory access was slow, branch prediction was bad/non-existent, and pipelining was new? The constraints applicable in the late '80s aren't the constraints applicable now. Plus, this is a story about C, so I feel comfortable embracing the principle of explicit control flow. Delay slots just take that principle down to the branch prediction level.
- pavlov 3y agoSPARC is dead, long live RISC-V.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- inkyoto 3y agoNot so soon. SPARC is still (somehow) alive and is produced as SPARC M8. The highest spec'd CPU (SPARC M8-8) comes with 256 CPU cores and 2048 threads in up to 8 CPU configurations. https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/sparc-t8-m8-server-architecture.pdf https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/sparc-t8-m8-server-archit...