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> ...which is a long standing point of academic contention. What contention? If anything, Luu is being rather generous–Knuth was just whining that the decades-
by yawaramin 3y ago
> ...which is a long standing point of academic contention.
What contention? If anything, Luu is being rather generous–Knuth was just whining that the decades-long free lunch program was being cancelled.
- moonchild 3y agoVLIW (Itanium is a VLIW arch) is what's contentious, not multiprocessing.
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- yawaramin 3y agoOK I missed that. Thanks. But it looks like Itanium was only tangential to this discussion, in that Knuth thinks multicore programming may be an even worse mistake than Itanium.