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The shocker is: a lot of engineers think that the ISA has huge implications.
by leonheld 2y ago
The shocker is: a lot of engineers think that the ISA has huge implications.
- chasil 2y agoThere was an interview with one of the SPARC creators who said that a huge benefit of control of the instruction set was the ability to take the platform in directions that (Intel) resellers could not. He was otherwise largely agnostic on the benefits of SPARC.
- paulmd 2y agoISA shouldn’t be more than a 10% or 20% performance impact or so, per jim Keller
- SkyMarshal 2y agoThat's not trivial...
- nextaccountic 2y agoWhat this means is that a better ISA might permanently be one generation ahead in terms of performance